Addy

“Max felt like he was floating on his back in the middle of the ocean without a care in the world as he reached toward Molly and brushed the sea spray from her lips with a tender touch of his thumb. He wanted to bottle this moment, like a handwritten message cast out to see=a, so he could come back to it again and again- the delicious burn of anticipation, the promise of what came next. He remembered an old sea myth he'd read once in one of the duty hardbound books in his uncle's study: a kiss from a mermaid would protect a sailer from drowning. Some even said such a kiss could grant the ability to breathe underwater. Ridiculous, really. A myth wasm by its very nature, false. But the pounding of Max's heart told him he just might be a believer and his mouth lowered toward hers.”
― Teri Wilson, A Line in the Sand