Seaside Secrets by Melissa Foster

Author:Melissa Foster [Foster, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

AMY SAT ON her deck working through the notes she’d taken during her meeting with Duke. It was midafternoon, and Tony had gone to catch the waves at high tide with a few surfing buddies. She sat back and kicked her feet up on another deck chair. The Seaside complex was quiet.

She glanced at Leanna’s empty cottage. She and Kurt had gone to stay at Kurt’s home on the bay side, which was only a few miles from Seaside. Caden and Bella were renovating their house in Wellfleet, and they were spending the afternoon painting the living room and dining room with Evan and his friends. Pete was working on refinishing a boat at his bay-side house with his father, and Jenna and Sky were hanging out there for the day. Blue was meeting them to go to the bonfire later. Jamie and Jessica were still on their honeymoon. They were bringing Jamie’s grandmother, Vera, who raised him after his parents were killed when he was six, up to the Cape with them when they returned in two weeks.

Amy’s eyes drifted to Tony’s cottage. She was meeting him at his cottage later, and they were going to the bonfire together to meet the others. She put her notebook on the table and leaned forward, looking down at the woods beyond the pool. Her pulse sped up as she rose to her feet and stepped off her deck.

The gravel crunched beneath her flip-flops, reminding her of the nights long ago when she and Tony had snuck out together. She’d been so scared back then. Scared of everything, it seemed. Pleasing her father, who adored her but had high expectations, nonetheless. Scared of the emotions that felt as if they owned her. She physically ached when she thought of Tony, and that first night they’d made love, she’d been trembling so badly that Tony had nearly backed out. He’d thought she was too scared of it hurting, when in reality, she’d been even more scared of feeling as much as she did for him.

When her feet left the gravel and met the thick lawn, Amy slowed her pace and drank in the sparse woods. The trees had grown much taller, raising their full branches higher and stealing the camouflage that had made her feel safe from prying eyes. She turned and glanced up the hill at the cottages, thinking about how naive they’d been. Anyone could have heard them sneaking out, or caught them in the woods. She remembered the heady anticipation, the threat of being caught in the back of her mind, and the way she’d blocked it out as strongly as she’d blocked out that terrible night.

But she’d never blocked out her love for Tony.

She wound through the woods to the spot between the two pitch pine trees that grew closer together than other neighboring trees. Our spot.

She lowered herself down to her back and stared up at slices of the light blue sky through the canopy of trees.

Do you think I’m doing the wrong thing? Tony’s twenty-year-old voice wrapped around her.

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