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Or, did he decide to stay beneath the seas now that he’d returned home, and leave this landed world without telling her? Without so much as saying goodbye?
Her heart pinched at that thought.
She wouldn’t blame him if he disappeared for good. After all this time, he was finally free. She might do the same herself were she in his shoes. Or fins.
There was no reason to stay with her, was there? The only reason would be to continue the mission the “Master” had sent him on.
But Brigid knew that he’d never hurt her. Sheknewit with every shred of her soul and every beat of her heart.
She just wished, now that he was gone, that they’d had more time together. She wished he could have seen her home in the Highlands.
The seas there were so much more beautiful. When the weather was good, everything was brighter, rich with color. Deep blues and greens. Golden sands and tall grass. When the weather was stormy, the sight was magnificently tumultuous. This quiet, serene English beach looked faded and bland compared to her homeland.
Mostly, she wished he would have stayed a little longer forher. And by “a little longer,” she meant forever to the power of infinity.
Heaving a soft sigh, she walked to a flat boulder nearby, folded his clothes on her lap, arranged his boots neatly by her feet, and waited with her elbows on knees and her face supported on cupped hands.
If it wasn’t for his clothes, she might have thought she’d imagined all this. For, it seemed that she’d come here by herself. Everything was silent and still, save the gently rolling clouds and rocking waves.
How long had it been by now? she wondered. Half an hour? Longer?
How much longer should she wait before she knew if he was coming back or not?
“Is everything okay down there!” Annie called out from the top of the hill.
Brigid could barely see her out of the corner of her eyes. Just a tiny speck from afar.
“Yes,” she called back.
“Fine!”
But it wasn’t fine, Brigid thought. The longer Sai stayed beneath the seas, the less fine it was turning out to be.
“Just a little longer,” she said out loud, but not at a shout that Annie and Lord Larkin could hear.
She would wait just a few more minutes to see if Sai was coming back. She both wished he would and he wouldn’t return.
If he came back, wouldn’t he be in danger of falling into the Master’s clutches again? The evil being wanted Brigid, she gathered. Perhaps they would leave Sai alone if they finally had her.
But, despite the danger, she wanted him to return if only for a little while, so that she could say a proper goodbye. Maybe even finagle a goodbye kiss. And not a terribly chaste one, if Brigid had anything to say about it.
Was that too much to ask for? A kiss from her prince?
A distant roar startled her out of her reverie, making her snap her head up for a look.
There was nothing in the water, not even a splash, but the waves seemed to churn harder, crashing into each other from greater heights.
Perhaps she had imagined it. Perhaps it was thunder. After all, the sky closest to the water’s edge in the horizon looked rather dark and stormy.
And then—
Something large and silver flashed in the waves, curving above the water before dipping back in. Something sleek and shimmering with shiny scales.
Brigid didn’t know when she stood to her feet, still holding Sai’s clothes in her arms. She simply kept her eyes intensely and unblinkingly focused on the water, searching for any sign of…
An enormous scaled body curved above the waves again, this time flicking a fin-tipped tail at the end. Exactly as she remembered from her dreams.
Itwasher dragon.
