Lost by rebecca guy

Author:rebecca guy [Rebecca Guy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Purple Stag Creatives
Published: 2022-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Six

Mac rounded the bend and continued along the centre line of the loch as it thinned to what looked like a wide river rather than the loch it resembled from the cabin. His strokes were steady, the boat smooth on the water, and it felt enormously good to be away from the cabin again.

You should have come out earlier. There's been many days you could have come out in the boat. It hasn't been too bad.

Mac grimaced at the realisation that he had sunk so low into what was going on in the cabin and Sula that he just hadn't seen a way out.

Perception. Should have just opened the door, he thought ironically. How many people honestly thought they were stuck in a situation they said there was just no way out of, and Mac had always told them there was a way. Always a way.

There is, but it took a while for me to find it.

Let’s not slip back down there again, Mac. I didn't like it.

He pulled at the paddles harder, enjoying the exertion and the endorphins that had been absent for too long now. Then he saw something in the bush line ahead. A few more strokes, and he saw Saul waving his arms on the shore. Rolo barked and raised himself up onto the front of the boat majestically. Mac raised a hand and turned the boat toward Saul, half sorry that he had been so near, and the journey hadn't taken him another half hour onward.

You can come up this way any time. Maybe you should.

He vowed that he would explore the loch to its far reaches before he left the cabin if he could. A plan, he thought with glee. A plan and a goal, you're finally going forward, getting focused. He reached Saul, who strode into the water to help Mac pull up the boat.

'Hi! Hi!' he said as Mac disembarked. Together, they pulled the boat up into the shelter of the trees as Rolo jumped out and sniffed about. 'How was the journey?'

Mac grinned at his friend. 'Great,' he said, 'I should have done that long before now. I've been sitting in that damn cabin.'

'The boat was there the whole time,' Saul said clapping him on the back with a laugh.

'I know, couldn't see the woods for the trees, but I feel refreshed now, so much better.'

'Cleaned out, Ma would say. Come on, they're all excited to meet you.'

Mac forced a grin.

'Who's they? I thought this would be us and Ezzie?'

'Well, you know after I told Ma and Da they were excited to meet you, and Ezzie's mother, of course. That's everyone though, I promise.'

Mac raised his eyebrows. 'Excited to meet me?'

Saul reddened. 'Well, they're excited to see what you can do for Ezzie… you know.'

'Why do you look a little guilty, Saul?' Mac said, standing his ground as the man turned to walk away from the water.

Saul looked back, lips pursed, his eyes flicked to the sky, and he rubbed his nose.

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