Page 105 of The Spirit of Love
“You found the light!” It’s Tania at the megaphone in the cockpit.
“More chin-ups, please,” Masha calls into the megaphone.
“Was my piña colada better?” Olivia’s voice asks.
“Jude, you salty old dog,” Captain Dan growls.
“Not a day too soon, man,” Jake says.
“I think they’re rooting for us,” I murmur to Jude as we wave at the ship, sailing onward, around the next cove.
“Question,” Jude says, resting his thumb on my lip. “When we kissed just now, did it feel like the earth was splitting open?”
“This is nothing,” I assure him. “Wait until I get you horizontal on the secret beach.”
“You know about the secret beach?” he asks. “Of course you know about the secret beach.”
“I know a zip line that can take us there in thirty seconds.”
“No, it hasn’t been used in ten years.”
“That thing was built to last,” I say with a twinkle in my eye.
“When do you think I’ll stop being jealous of my ghost?”
“I know how to make it sooner,” I tell him with a knowing look.
And then, like so many Hollywood endings, Jude sweeps me off my feet and carries me toward Sam’s secret beach and our whole new adventuretogether.
