He Came Back Running (Maya and Mason) novel Chapter 215

Chapter 215

Alex’s POV

I had arranged it three days ago… The morning after we arrived, while Maya was in the shower and I had twenty minutes….

The resort manager had been… once she understood what I was asking, entirely willing.

This happens more than you might think, she had said. People come here to find things again.

I had thanked her

She had made the calls.

I had not told Maya.

Not because I thought she would object…. she would not object. But because some things were better received without the anticipation of them, without the opportunity to manage the feeling in advance. What I was arranging deserved to arrive as the thing itself, without the preparatory versions of it that existed in the hours of knowing it was coming.

She slept later than I did.

She had been sleeping better since the sandcastle…..

I went downstairs.

Made coffee

Thought about the garden…. About the white dress and the vows we had written and the hi at the end of the aisle that had been the last thing before everything went wrong. About the three seconds that had restructured everything, and the eight weeks that had followed, and the recovery, and the coming back.

We had not finished

Tonight we finished.

I told her we were going to the beach.

She looked at me

“We’ve been to the beach,” she said.

“Different beach,” I said.

She looked at me the way she looked at me when she was deciding whether to press for details or simply accept the direction

She accepted the direction.

We walked.

The section of beach the manager had chosen was south of the cottage…. far enough from the city that the town’s light didn’t reach it, close enough that the walk was manageable. Private, in the way that certain stretches of coast were private not from exclusivity but from geography, from the angle of the cliff that meant this particular curve of sand wasn’t visible from the road or the path.

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