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The men in Westport … they’re not what you’re used to. They’re unpolished and direct. Capable in a way the men of your acquaintance … aren’t.” Her gaze grew distant. “Their job is dangerous and they don’t care how much it scares you, they go back to the sea every time. They’ll always choose it over a woman. And they’d rather die doing what they love than be safe at home.”
“Women are protective. Nurturing. A boat is given the name of a woman in the hopes that she’ll protect the crew. And hopefully put a good word in with the other important woman in our lives, the ocean.”
“The captain is a little sensitive about Piper,” Fox explained, still wearing that shit-eating grin. “He doesn’t know what to do with his confusing man feelings.”
She’d just decided to be friends-only with the sea captain. This definitely wasn’t going to help divert her rather irritating attraction to him.
“Piper, I don’t just go putting my arms around girls.” She paused in the doorway. Looked back. “What does that mean?” He gave in to just a touch of temptation, tucking a wind-tangled strand of hair behind her ear. Soft. “It means I’ll be around.”
A fisherman’s life was rooted in tradition and he’d always taken comfort in that. Protocols might change, but the rhythm of the ocean didn’t. The songs remained the same, sunsets were reliable and eternal, the tides would always shift and pull.
“Trying to figure out what to do when no one is watching. And wondering if maybe that’s the stuff that actually matters.”
Just let me go home and see her. But the Bering Sea chose that moment to remind him exactly who was in control.
She’d come to the hospital. In his clothes. Did she realize tears were spilling down her cheeks and she was shaking, head to toe? No, she didn’t. Based on her flirty shoulder shrugs and attempts to
wink, she thought she was playing it cool, and it made his chest burn. This girl. He’d be keeping her. There was no way around it.
“When I hug you?” Fuck. His heart was turning over and over like a car engine. “My hugs are your recharging station?”
“Can you be mad at me while I kiss you, baby? It’s all I’ve wanted to do for the last two weeks.”
And when her face transformed with pure joy and she waved enthusiastically, Brendan knew he loved her.
“Where is home?” “With me.”
Framed in the hazy sunlight, he could have been from past or present. A man and the ocean. Timeless.
“Can you let me into the recharging station, please?”
“When the reward is as perfect as you, as perfect as this, the work is a fucking honor.”
And when she was happy, like she was in that moment, she threw her arms open and ran right toward the main source, letting him sweep her away …
