He's a Magic Man by Susan Squires

Author:Susan Squires [Squires, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781479307623
Publisher: Susan Squires
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Michael waited until after breakfast, even after they’d done the dishes, to broach the subject. They’d made small talk and laughed some. It felt natural. “Let’s take that walk down to the beach,” he said as he squeezed out the dishrag and tossed it into the sink.

“Okay.”

He led her through the trees on the path built up with rocks across the mangrove squish down to the little beach.

“What are those trees?” she asked, pointing. “They look like they’re on stilts.”

“White mangroves. The stilts are their roots. ”

“Oh. Like the little ones at the water’s edge.”

“Those are red mangroves. The mangrove swamps are the reason there aren’t any waves. It’s low tide right now, but when the tide comes up they’re half-covered in salt water. Those roots are the way they get oxygen. Great place to find oysters. Fish breed in there too.”

“Well, what a fount of knowledge you are.”

That made him feel good. So he pointed out the waxy, shiny leaves of a wild coffee bush and a snowberry that actually had fruit. They came to the crescent of beach like a little white island in the mangrove swamp. “Those roots also keep the beach sand from being washed away. Otherwise all the work to haul it in would be wasted in the first hurricane.”

“This beach is man-made?”

“Oh, yeah. All beaches in the Keys are. This one belongs to Heaven’s Acres.” He pointed to a speck at the point of land in the distance. “You can just make out the house over there. They were going to build a dock and a guesthouse on this site. They got as far as making the beach.”

“What happened?”

“Prison, I heard. Owner lost a lot of people a lot of money promising a sure thing.”

“If something’s a sure thing, the only sure thing is that it isn’t.”

“My, we’re getting cynical in our old age,” he said with a chuckle.

She sighed as she looked out over the ocean.

“What is it?” he asked.

“That aqua shade of water. I’m a Pacific girl. I’ll never get used to it.”

He smiled. He realized that he’d done a lot of smiling in the last twenty-four hours. “Yeah. Looks like another planet or something.” He let her look for a while and when she wandered down the little beach he followed, hands in the pockets of his shorts. How to broach this? Give her an out and see if she’d take it? Then he’d know how much she trusted him, but it was a horrible chance to take. He cleared his throat. “So, you wanna tell me what happened last night, before you fell?”

He saw her stiffen. “Not particularly.”

He took her shoulders and turned her to face him. “Truth time. Epileptic seizures? LSD flashbacks?” He smiled. Would she take the out? He saw her struggling. “No shame in epilepsy.”

She took a huge breath and let it out. “You’ll think I’m crazy.”

He raised his brows. “A guy who uses his psychic abilities to find things? Really?”

She chewed her plump bottom lip. That really did something to him.

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