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Mike continued to follow as Olivia moved. Every ten minutes or so, she would swim farther down the cliff, making it look as though she were exploring, as though she were just another young woman having a leisurely swim and collecting odds and ends for when she went home.
The fact that this was happening in the night probably looked suspicious as hell, but it couldn’t be helped.
She certainlylookedlike a tourist around here. Every once in awhile, she reached into the coral or along the rock and pulled something out to put into the bag at her waist.
It didn’t matter what she was taking. It was all for show.
For show for a creature that would try to kill her if she fought too hard.
Mike wanted her off this mission.
He couldn’t do it. He couldn’t let her put herself in danger anymore, and he didn’t care what an asset she was or how much she could defend herself with those red tentacles.
Chase would back him up.
He hoped.
They would find someone else to be the bait.
After five hours and nothing happening, they packed it in.
It was well past midnight now, and their giant, mystery creature had yet to show up.
Olivia didn’t have to give him the signal. He knew.
They were both tired.
If anyone was watching her, then it would look a little strange for a mermaid, even a Kraken, to be dilly-dallying about for that long.
Assuming their targetwaswatching.
Mike watched her make her rounds to retrieve all her cameras and sonar devices. He continued to glide slowly through the water, and even when he couldn’t see her, he still sensed her on his skin, felt as she shifted her body to have legs again instead of those deadly tentacles, and began her swim back to the shore.
He waited a moment, and even that was enough to crush his insides a little, but then he too went with her.
Mike circled around a little so it wouldn’t look as though he were swimming in a straight line for her, but he arced around enough that he was able to change fully back to human.
No more breathing underwater. He came up with a heavy breath.
Just another thrill seeker looking to swim in freezing waters for the night.
Not the most secure plan in the world, but at least this way, to any casual observer, he was meeting her first. Not because he’d been down below, watching her that entire time.
Olivia stayed in place, so the water was waist-high. Mike could only smile at her as he could plainly see her reaching into her bag, pulling out her bikini bottoms, and putting them on before tightening the purple scarf she’d been wearing down below around her waist.
“I hate you,” she said, gutting him a little even though he could tell she wasn’t serious. “Getting to wear a wetsuit.”
He let his face and head melt back into its more human shape, but he kept his shark smile. “Yes, it is nice, isn’t it?”
She rolled her eyes, but he could see her smiling.
“You get to keep your bikini top on.”
“It’s not the same thing, and you know it.”
“But, I like it.”
She grinned at him. “Because you’re a pervert.”
