Page 71 of Sail Away with Me

She nodded.

“The next rainy day, we’re watching it.”

“Okay.”

“What’s scares you the most?”

“Failure.”

“I understand that for sure,” Sail said.

“What would you do if you won the lottery?”

“Pay back my parents the money I owe them and then travel the world by sailboat.”

“That can be dangerous,” she told him. “I’ve read articles where people go missing or are murdered.”

“No different than living,” he said with a shrug. She didn’t want to think the world was such a horrible place, but she couldn’t disagree.

“Do you believe in fate?”

“I want to say no, but it feels like I was always meant to meet you,” she told him.

“Same.” Sail ran his finger along the side of her face.

“What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you?”

“Shit, just one?” Sail laughed and blew out his breath. “Uh, I’d have to say the time a bunch of us were out on the boat, swimming. I dove in and lost my shorts. My friends all sucked and no one had a towel or extra shorts, so I had to free ball it back to shore. Of course, I was the one at the helm so . . .”

Galvin covered her face and stifled a laugh. “I’m sorry.”

Sail shrugged. “Shit happens.” He adjusted in bed and moved closer to her. “What’s your guilty pleasure?”

“You,” she said and this time she winked at him. Sail blushed. “Trashy reality TV. Every season I say I’m not watching it, and I do, and I’m sucked into all the phony drama.”

“Would you ever go on a TV show like that?”

She shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe.”

“What’s the one thing on your bucket list?”

“Easy,” she said. “I want to see the Northern Lights.”

“Me, too,” Sail said. “We’ll go together.”

Every part of her wanted to believe him. “If you could live in a fictional world, where would you go?”

“Narnia. I’d find a talking animal and follow it wherever it told me to go.”

“Okay, same,” Galvin said, laughing.

Sail linked their hands. “What was the last time you felt truly happy?”

“Right now, playing this game with you,” she told him. “Full disclosure, I didn’t want to like you, Sail. I wanted you to go away and let me be. You scared me and I kept telling myself thatyou were annoying and bothersome. When the truth was, I could easily see myself falling for you.”

He brought their joined hands to his lips and kissed the back of hers.

“What’s your favorite way to spend a day off?”

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