Lights on the Far Horizon Trilogy
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She saw the other patrons at the bar looking at her and she held her finger to her lips to keep them from tipping off her presence to Tanner.
The woman sitting closest to Tanner at the bar gave her a gentle nod in return.
Kinsey prepared her camera for the shot, then, finger on the shutter button, she called out, “Hey Tanner. I want your sexy body.”
When Tanner smiled and turned in her direction, Kinsey snapped off the shot.
Without looking at the photo in the camera LCD display Kinsey knew the photo was perfect. “That’s the picture I dreamed of getting. That’s my next painting and I can’t wait to start it,” she said smiling and walking up next to Tanner at the bar.
“Why,” Tanner laughed, “do you embarrass me like that?”
“I like to push your buttons, baby…” that was all she had time to say as Tanner pulled her to him and gave her a kiss, wet, deep and wonderful right on the lips in front of everyone in the bar.
“How about a drink?” he asked when he pulled back from her. Then he looked at her, thought for a moment, and continued, “I was in the terrace of the hotel bar when they gave Sammy our cocktail, the Sunset Kinsey to drink. Do you remember?”
Kinsey nodded as she thought back to the darkness that had come into her when she noticed the drink in Sammy’s hand that first night in Bermuda.
Tanner turned to the bartender, “My beautiful wife would like a Sunset Kinsey. Do you know how to make it?”
“Of course, sir. Who doesn’t know how to make that drink?” He looked at Tanner and smiled, “That drink is getting to be a very popular cocktail.”
Kinsey was elated, “Are you kidding? I want one for my husband as well then.”
“Two Sunset Kinsey’s coming up,” said the bartender.
“We’ll take them out on the porch,” Tanner said as he put his hand to the small of Kinsey’s back and led her away.
Once seated he looked at her and said, “Make no mistake. I saw you break down when Sammy was given a Sunset Kinsey to drink that night. You ran away and he went after you and now we are back and you are better. A Sunset Kinsey is a celebration drink.”
Kinsey nodded her head and said, “I know it is. I can’t wait to have one with you again. What made me so upset was that I’d never even seen the drink without you next to me.”
The bartender brought them their drinks and Tanner held his up to Kinsey, “To the wife that gives me cause to celebrate every moment of my life. Here’s to you Kinsey.”
Kinsey touched his glass with hers and noticed the light of the orange sun shining through the layers of liquid within it and then she saw the light of her reflection, her white smile, shining inside of her husband’s eyes and somehow, though she didn’t think it ever to be possible, she found herself more in love with the man. She vocalized her thought for her husband, “I am going to rock you with every part of my body tonight, Tanner. I love you so much and, sometimes, exploding all over you is all I know to do.”
“I’m a lucky man.” Tanner said, he rubbed his hand along the inside of her thigh and added. “Explode on me anytime you want Kinsey.” He took a drink from his cocktail and leaned back in his chair, “Look at this place, Kins. Bermuda. A man could like it.”
“And a woman.” Kinsey said, her hand pointing out to the rocks, the sand, the ocean and the sky beyond.
Was that a ship she saw, with its navigation lights just coming on, moving across the far edge of the sea? When she’d been in the depths of her depression all she saw was never ending darkness, but sometimes, she remembered, she thought she could see the faintest of lights shining out to her, maybe like the ship she was watching pass by now, out far on her horizon. And every time she thought she saw it, she now remembered her husband being somewhere near her; trying to break through to her.
God, thank you for my husband. And the lights on the far horizon, she prayed within her as she turned to Tanner and said, “Let’s take a walk on the beach.”
Tanner and Kinsey took a long walk on the beach, in the evening light of Bermuda, as a ship passed them far along on its way, with lights shining like beacons of hope out across the vast sea.
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