Jessica squealed beside me, pointing at th

amazing, Sar

ip was supposed to be a last hurrah before real life started

l bright sails and forward motion,

when we

if the sea itself birthed them. Men, sleek and

taking. Ethereal, Jessica breathed. H

didn't h

she declared, her eyes fi

e bordering the beach. Tall, broad, radiating a raw, untamed en

He simply state

ca went to the sea, chasing a dream. I was

a, a title I earned through fear and forced compliance, not love. His possessivene

itions of the Selkies, Ethan' s reserved nature, it wasn' t th

ies for some transgression I never learned th

r of loyalty to the

atever mess she' d made, I subtly provoked a rival facti

sure Jessica got away, she pointed a finger at me

ausing all this!

were a dea

edge from the conflict I' d indirectly

like the deep sea, were stormy. He didn' t recog

aw was the ocean,

cold, the

sica had chosen, because of a