Wait for the Rain by Murnane Maria

Author:Murnane, Maria [Murnane, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2015-02-24T08:00:00+00:00

After an afternoon of shopping and wandering around town, they returned to the beach house, a bit tired, sunned out, and ready for some downtime before dinner. KC ducked into her room for a nap, saying she was too wiped out even to make herself disappear on Daphne’s bed wearing her new dress.

Skylar had to dial into yet another conference call and quickly settled at the desk in the living room. “I feel like this is my office,” she groaned as she reached for her headset.

“At least you have a nice view, right?” Daphne said.

“That’s the spirit.” Skylar chuckled and put on the headset. “Now shush, I need to switch gears into professional mode.”

Despite all the activity of the day, Daphne wasn’t feeling sleepy, so she decided to go for another walk on the beach, this time in the opposite direction. She and KC had explored a sliver of that stretch during their workout, but she was interested to see what else lay beyond the patch they’d covered.

Before leaving the house, she popped into her bedroom to check her phone—which she’d left plugged in on the dresser while they were out shopping—to see if Emma had returned her text from earlier in the day. The screen was blank.

Daphne frowned. While a part of her hoped her daughter’s lack of communication was because she was having too much fun on her vacation to even think about her phone, a bigger part of her hoped it was due to poor cell reception. She felt a bit self-centered admitting that to herself, but it was true. She missed her daughter, and she wanted her daughter to miss her back. At least a little bit.

She set the phone down on the dresser, then reached for her straw hat and tote bag and quietly made her way into the kitchen so as not to disturb Skylar’s call. She heard snippets as she retrieved a bottle of water from the refrigerator and tiptoed through the living room toward the French doors, the sound of Skylar’s fingers flying over the keyboard providing a musical backdrop to the conversation.

“Walk on the beach,” Daphne mouthed the words and pointed to the ocean.

“Sounds bueno,” Skylar whispered with a quick smile, then immediately returned her focus to the conference call. Daphne was amazed at her ability to slip in and out of worlds so seamlessly.

Daphne gently closed the glass doors behind her, then walked across the deck and glanced up at the cloudless blue sky. She’d applied and reapplied sunscreen a couple times already, but she could still feel her fair skin burning in the hot sun. She hunted inside her tote bag for a bottle of sunblock and her sunglasses, sprayed herself down one more time, then put on the straw hat and glasses and made her way down the steps. Once off the deck, she removed her flip-flops to enjoy the feel of the beach between her toes, but it was too hot for her skin, so she quickly trotted down to the shore.

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