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So that was what I did until she was able to stand more.
I fished.
And didn’t catch a single damn thing.
Every single bite I got was taken by the sharks, and eventually I said, “Let’s move.”
She patted the chair. “I’ll stay right here.”
I didn’t go up to the tower.
I went to the lower area and steered us to another of my favorite spots.
And this time, I caught a fish.
“Pretty,” she said as she saw my catch. “But how do you get that off?”
“That” was a shark, and I grinned.
Then I cut the line. “Like that.”
She giggled, and it was the most beautiful sound I’d ever heard.
I’d forgotten how much that sound had meant to me.
With both of us being quiet as I fished, catching a few keepers, I thought a lot about what I would’ve done had she shown up before I’d married Danyetta.
I would’ve still had my baby.
But I don’t think I would’ve gone through with the marriage to her.
I would’ve realized what a mistake it was, and I wouldn’t have allowed myself to stay away from Morrigan any longer.
I would’ve been happier.
I would’ve had a completely different life.
I would’ve never gone to prison, I’d imagine.
“I’ve been to prison,” I said suddenly.
Her eyes dilated as I turned, placed the reel into the holder between her legs, and gestured at her to reel it in.
She leaned over and did as I said, but still said, “I know.”
“I’m not a bad person,” I promised.
She looked at me, a bead of sweat popping out over her brow. “You think that I’d judge you for what you did?”
I didn’t know anything at this point. The woman I thought I knew would’ve told me that she hadn’t gone to school. She would’ve told me that she was back in town. She would’ve stopped me before I’d married Danyetta.
Not that I regretted anything about Danyetta, or Bowie. But I loved Morrigan. I’d never stopped loving her.
Loving Morrigan was a way of life for me.
I knew that it made me sort of a bad person, me having married Danyetta when I loved someone else. But Morrigan had been so certain in her path to becoming a doctor. And that path hadn’t included me. Maybe it was me punishing her in a way. Maybe it was just me and Danyetta making do the only way we knew how.
I didn’t know.
