Beckett clamped his eyes closed and under his breath said, “Splash,” as Luna hit the water with a kabloosh.
Dan leaned beside him, as well as everyone else on the ship, and they watched as Luna deftly climbed on her paddleboard. Dan bellowed, “On your mark, get set, go!”
Luna grinned a big cheeky grin, put her paddle in the water pushed back, and paddled, fast. Dan said, “Now how about that? Do you see this Beckett — your girlfriend is a freaking goddess.”
Beckett laughed.
Dan said, “How can you be smiling? You’ve got to be asking yourself, how does an army guy keep a woman like that happy.”
“I don’t know. Seriously. How this will work is a mystery I need to figure out. I’m only smiling because of one thing.”
“What’s that?”
“She’s headed in the right direction.”
