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Chapter Five

Leah

Bermuda

The Bermuda sun soaked into my shoulders as I rubbed on another coat of sunscreen, avoiding the straps ofour last day on shore before the trek across the Atlantic

A shadow ca above"Wilder said I could find you here," she said with an open smile

"Hey, Brooke" I checked my watch "I’m supposed to meet him in fifteen minutes"

"I think he was scared you wouldn’t show," she ad an enoruilty about the stunt with the zip-line"

"I already told Penna, I’hts" He didn’t knohat it took for me to climb onto that platform, either, or that I’d taken the entire ride with my eyes shut until he asked if I could swirew up in southern California The ocean and I are well acquainted" In fact, the lack of Pacific blue was the only drawback to living in New Haenerally diss

"Good, because we’re supposedsuit? I sed the athered up et to him"

It was a short walk down the beach to the picturesque dock where a large yacht was tied My jaw dropped when Paxton ju only a pair of dark blue board shorts and a set a yacht?" I asked when he met us halfway down the pier

"Borrowed it," he said with a grin

"It’s his dad’s," Brooke answered

Paxton shot her a disgruntled look