The Man of the Lake: A Summer Merman Romance by Alessa Winters

Author:Alessa Winters [Winters, Alessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

After plying Lisa with clean water, some Gatorade, and throwing many unnecessary towels and blankets around her despite the heat, Lisa locks eyes with Brianna for a few seconds.

“I saw you down there?” She says, voice unsteady. “I thought I snagged on some seaweed, but...”

“There’s no seaweed in a lake,” Emmy says, fussing over Lisa with a more than motherly demeanor. “Maybe some underwater trees, like where they used to be a grove but it flooded.” Emmy also meets Brianna’s eyes, in an anguished attempt to make sense of it.

“It felt like it was grabbing me,” Lisa says, her voice small, tiny, and she looks it to match, with the giant towels and the too large cup of water. “I know it’s just a tree, but...”

A chill goes down Brianna’s spine, despite the hot sun and the bright light reflecting off the surface of the water.

They didn’t see it.

Or, if they did see it, their minds erased what was there, replacing it with something a little more friendly to comprehend. Something more natural and more easy to digest.

Nevermind that there had been something actively twining around her ankle. That Brianna had dug her nails into and pulled. Nevermind that it was pulling her down, deeper and deeper, and no tree in any lake would be able to do it.

She can see Lisa’s pulse in her neck, still trembling against her skin, and her hands still shook.

“I’m just glad we got you untangled,” Brianna says, her mouth moving on automatic and praying that it comes out soothing. “It was real tough.”

The hair on the back of her arms raises, despite the weather. She should be super warm, sweating despite getting out of the water, but…

Madison’s boyfriend, now that the action and adventure is done, sits with his chin in his hands, already looking towards the lake again. “If it’s just a tree, we should go back, just avoid that patch,” he says, and it’s just about the most moronic thing he’s said all day. Which is saying something, as he is not the most intelligent of people.

“Maybe...maybe we shouldn’t go down there that much anymore,” Brianna says, and thank god she’s not the only person blinking owlishly at him at that statement. “I mean, it could need to be cleared out.”

Madison’s boyfriend shrugs, because of course he is unconcerned. “I could take my machete?”

All the other girls scoff, but Brianna just squints at him, because it’s not the worst idea in the world. Not the best, but not the worst.

“I mean, if you really want, that’s probably smart,” she says, as she tries to figure out how someone would swim with a machete in their hands. “Though maybe a long knife?”

“Machette’s a long knife,” he says, almost a bit surly, because of course he has that reaction to things. “I could go down there and slash the tree down.”

Thankfully, Madison just rolls her eyes at him and makes a dismissive scoff, effectively silencing her dim witted boyfriend before he could make another argument for it.

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