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“What about the other guy?”
“Loken? He is his bodyguard and personal driver, as far as I know. He was transformed the same way I was. Gemstone under the skin.”
“Really?”
“Really. It was a complicated day, and now that we are slowing down, I want to get into my next swimsuit and get some of the surfing down.”
“Okay, Orc is going to be freediving with one of the underwater cameras, and I am going to shoot from the beach.”
“Great. I have just the suit.”
She headed down and got into another sporty suit.
They coordinated the shot, and when Thera was on the beach, Aeryn got on her board with Orc recording. The drones took flight, and the show started.
She felt the surge of the wave under her and cheated, wanting to get the shot over with. She didn’t just move herself; she moved Orc in the water and kept a close eye on him, letting him surface when he needed to and then riding the curl.
She watched her posture, kept the fixed smile on, and eventually bailed out. Orc came up next to her and grinned. “Nice trick.”
They swam to the beach, and Thera grinned. “I got it. That looked great. The drones were amazing as well.”
Aeryn reached into her cleavage. “Yeah, the tracker for them to lock onto was handy.”
Orc grinned. “Good thing you had plenty of room in there to conceal it.”
“Yeah, it’s usually where I pack my lunch and my phone.”
Thera grinned. “This is so much fun. Back to the boat!”
Orc blinked. “You don’t want to do another run, Aeryn?”
“This isn’t a competition. If we get thirty usable seconds, we are good.”
Thera grinned. “Because it’s a commercial.”
“Technically, a video, but yeah, it’s a commercial.”
She looked at them. “Gather your stuff, and we will fly back to the boat.”
They scrambled. Orc held them both, and she used enough wind to lift them, scoop them, and carry them over the waves.
The next stop was placid in comparison, and when she stood on the paddleboard to move across the view of the waterfall, the drones were capturing everything, and Thera was once again on a whale, trying to stay out of the camera shot.
Skaay had suggested that she do a few yoga poses on the paddleboard. She did a handstand, deliberately wobbled her board, and plunged into the water. She pulled herself up onto the board with a grin and folded her arms on the board, propping her chin on them. She made her smile seductive and suspected she would be a little more in the public eye than she wanted.
When they had all the footage they needed for the day and the sun was turning orange, they headed back, tired but happywith the result. Skaay was piloting, and Orc was going over the footage.
The floating island was nowhere to be seen, and the yacht was missing as well.
Aeryn drank from her water bottle and sat with her elbows on her knees.
Thera sat next to her. “Long day, huh?”
“In many ways.”
“I am sorry your mate wasn’t what you had hoped.”
“I never hoped. I just wanted to live my life under my own control. It was the thing I didn’t have when I was growing up. So, I got a job authenticating marine salvage and antiques, and that is where I ran into Sohar and Loken. From then on, it was a fight to keep my life under my control when so much had been yanked away from me. I have been hiding from them. To see them here is astonishing. The coincidence is annoying.”
