Lose Yourself (The Desires Unlocked Trilogy Part Two)

  ‘No,’ she says. ‘I don’t want you to stay with him.’

  Glen is still coughing up water; his face is red, his blue eyes bloodshot, his chest heaving.

  ‘Look at him,’ Theo says. ‘He’s done in. Go. NOW!’ he commands her.

  Yet her instincts tell her not to leave him. ‘Promise me you’ll be right behind me,’ she begs him.

  ‘I promise, Valentina.’

  She looks long and hard at Theo, then over at Glen, who is still in a heap on the floor of the boat. She supposes he needs to go to hospital – and then what? Will they charge him with assault? She looks back at Theo.

  He nods at her. His blue grotto eyes making her trust him. ‘Go on, Valentina,’ he says, softly. ‘I won’t let you down.’

  Reluctantly, she picks up the oars of her boat and uses one of them to guide her out of the grotto, lying back as she does so. Out on the open sea, she rows as fast as she can back to the small fishing vessel. The skipper helps her aboard, asking her where her husband is.

  ‘He is just coming,’ she tells him. ‘There’s another man and he fell in the sea.’

  ‘As did you?’ the sailor asks her, handing her a towel, which she wraps around herself.

  They wait patiently. She stands in the prow of the boat, like a sentinel. She stares at the entrance to the blue grotto, but the two men never come out.

  In the end, the skipper of her boat rows her back out to see what is taking so long. Yet, when they enter the grotto, neither Theo nor Glen is anywhere to be seen. Glen’s boat is still there – empty. She hunts the clear water. She can see right down to the pristine white seabed. She can see nothing. She tries to shake this terrible moment from her head. It has to be a bad dream. But, when she pinches herself, her nails draw blood. The men are gone. It seems impossible. They can’t just have disappeared, and yet it is undeniable. The blue grotto is empty of life and she has lost Theo again, maybe this time forever.

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