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Alex had run out into the water, and he’d gone out deep enough for it to crash over his waist when Geot to him She pushed herself out of the water and threw her arms around him She was cold from the water, and when his arainst her skin

He held her tight to him and kissed her more fiercely than he’d ever kissed her before There was this panicked insistence to it, like he couldn’t kiss her deeply enough, and Ge hi her out of the water as they kissed, and her tail pressed against his legs and sto to hio

Eventually they had to stop so they could breathe, but Alex still held her close to hiainst hers, his eyes closed as he breathed her in

"I ain, ently this ti to sob She’d been so certain she’d never see hiain, and now she was afraid that she’d never be able to let hi him frantically In the back of her mind, she knew the sirens were nearby in the house, and Alex would have to leave very soon if she wanted him to live So if she only had a few moments with hi against the smooth scales of her tail, which rose up to the small of her back Nobody had ever touched her tail before, and the warm touch of his skin sent pleasurable shivers down to her fin

"Wow" Alex stopped kissing her so he could look down at the iridescent scales, which shiht "So … you really are a hed and looked hi out now?" Harper asked, and Ge behind him She’d been so excited about Alex that she hadn’t even noticed her sister there

Harper had gone out far enough so the water was just lapping against her feet, and Daniel was standing a bit farther back on the shore, looking uncertainly from Gemma to the stark white house on the beach behind the Harper and Daniel’s unease had snapped her out of her roet

"Alex gets a kiss, and you tell et out of here?" Harper raised an eyebrow "No way We didn’t come all this way to leave you behind"

"I appreciate that, and I’lad to see you--all of you," Geh to comfortably talk to Harper, but his aret out of here"

"We’re not leaving without you," Harper said "I don’t care if I have to drag you out of here kicking and screa or stab those horrible she-devils in the eyes, you are coo," Ge without you," Alex said, and she turned to look at hi up into his deep brown eyes "Last time you left, I was unconscious and couldn’t stop you But this tio"

"You don’t understand," Gemma told him plaintively "They’ll kill you if they find you here"

"Then we should really get going," Alex replied