WLTF Chapter 14 Sneak Peek
Because I’m super busy but you all are always so patient! Hope this ties you all over for a bit.
It was taking Gil longer than expected to return with the food. Before Uma could worry however, Harry tugged on their joined hands, fingers locking easily together, pulling them deeper into the lake.
He gave her one of his rare boyish grins, soft and easy like a secret between them, as he stepped backwards. Harry pulled her further out until the water was at his waist and just below her chest.
Uma couldn’t help to grin back at him, feeling like a heavy weight was lifted off of her shoulder after the last three days.
They were both broken but at least they were together.
Sometimes that was all Uma even dared to wish for...
“He’s the earth and heaven to you…”
Harry let go of her hands, pulling his captain close to him by her waist until she was resting her head on his chest, both of them gently swaying in the lake’s gentle currents.
“I missed ye, Uma,” he murmured pressing a kiss on the crown of her head.
She didn’t respond. Couldn’t respond. Didn’t want to think of the strange but not horrible fluttering feeling in the pit of her stomach that she had been ignoring for years at the thought of him. At his touch...
“Girl you can't conceal it...We know how you're feeling...Who you thinking of…”
Uma pushed slightly away from Harry, nose wrinkled, looking over her shoulder in confusion.
“Did...did you hear that?” she questioned, scanning the surrounding greenery for the source of the...voice...or was it voices?
“Didn’t hear a sound lass,” Harry murmured from behind her.
Uma sighed, allowing him to gently turn her face back to him with his calloused hand under her chin...not prepared to be staring at once bright but now glazed blue eyes sunken into a bloated pale white face. His blue lips choked and sputtered with sea water
Breath stuck in her throat.
And then... they were falling.