Total pages in book: 76
Estimated words: 72059 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 360(@200wpm)___ 288(@250wpm)___ 240(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 72059 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 360(@200wpm)___ 288(@250wpm)___ 240(@300wpm)
“Do you believe in fate?”
“I want to say no, but it feels like I was always meant to meet you,” she told him.
“Same.” Sail ran his finger along the side of her face.
“What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you?”
“Shit, just one?” Sail laughed and blew out his breath. “Uh, I’d have to say the time a bunch of us were out on the boat, swimming. I dove in and lost my shorts. My friends all sucked and no one had a towel or extra shorts, so I had to free ball it back to shore. Of course, I was the one at the helm so . . .”
Galvin covered her face and stifled a laugh. “I’m sorry.”
Sail shrugged. “Shit happens.” He adjusted in bed and moved closer to her. “What’s your guilty pleasure?”
“You,” she said and this time she winked at him. Sail blushed. “Trashy reality TV. Every season I say I’m not watching it, and I do, and I’m sucked into all the phony drama.”
“Would you ever go on a TV show like that?”
She shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe.”
“What’s the one thing on your bucket list?”
“Easy,” she said. “I want to see the Northern Lights.”
“Me, too,” Sail said. “We’ll go together.”
Every part of her wanted to believe him. “If you could live in a fictional world, where would you go?”
“Narnia. I’d find a talking animal and follow it wherever it told me to go.”
“Okay, same,” Galvin said, laughing.
Sail linked their hands. “What was the last time you felt truly happy?”
“Right now, playing this game with you,” she told him. “Full disclosure, I didn’t want to like you, Sail. I wanted you to go away and let me be. You scared me and I kept telling myself that you were annoying and bothersome. When the truth was, I could easily see myself falling for you.”
He brought their joined hands to his lips and kissed the back of hers.
“What’s your favorite way to spend a day off?”
“Easy,” Sail said, echoing her earlier statement. “By the water. Reading, maybe napping under the sun, but definitely being with you.”
Galvin blushed.
“What’s the one thing people always get wrong about you?”
She thought for a minute. “That I’m confident. Most days, I’m faking it.”
“Lies,” he said, refuting her. “You’re one of the most confident people I know.”
She pointed at herself. “Fake.”
Sail rolled his eyes.
“What’s your biggest regret?”
Sail exhaled and stared at the ceiling. “Probably not standing up for myself when it came to my future. I should have.”
“It’s not too late.”
He shrugged and rolled to face her.
“If you could have any superpower, what would it be?”
“Teleportation.”
“Then you could come see me anytime you wanted,” he said quietly.
“Or the Northern Lights.”
Sail laughed. “Yes, those too. Okay, what’s a fear you’ve conquered?”
“Public speaking. I used to panic, but now it’s just a thrill.”
“I suppose you need to be good at if you’re going to be an attorney.”
“Exactly. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?”
“My grandma used to say, ‘You can’t control the wind, but you can adjust your sails.’”
“That’s perfect you.”
Sail nodded. “If you could relive any day of your life, which one would it be?”
“The day I realized my mom wasn’t going to be in my life forever. I would’ve told her then, all my hopes and dreams for my future, and asked her to leave a message on the video camera or something. I’d give anything to hear her voice again.”
Sail pulled her into his arms and held her. Galvin nestled in the crock of her neck and sighed.
“What’s something you’ve never told anyone? Her fingers traced the contours of his chest.
“That I’m falling in love with them.” Sail moved slightly to look at her. “Until now,” he added. “You’re the only one who has ever brought that emotion out in me, Galvin. You should know that’s where I’m at right now.” He looked at her for a long moment. “What’s the one thing you wish I knew about you?”
“I’m more scared of losing you than I let on.”
Sail maneuvered and hovered over Galvin. “I’m not going anywhere,” he told her. “We’ll figure it out, if it’s what we want. And we still have months before either of us have to go back to stupid reality. I will graduate in May, and then you’ll be back here, working. We’ll be together, Galvin. I believe this, deeply.”
“Okay,” she said with a nod. Tears clouded her vision.
“Please, don’t cry, babe.”
“Babe?” She let out a strangled laugh that sounded like she choked on something.
Sail shrugged as best he could. “I find it sexier than sweetie or whatever. I don’t know, I’ve never been big on pet names. But I’ve also never cared that much before, except for now.”
“Is there something you want me to call you?”
He pretended to think as his legs slipped between hers, spreading them wide. “You can call me, Daddy.”