Unconventional - Page 99
Her eyes went glassy. There were tears forming, but they weren’t bad ones. They were good tears.
“Not just in the sense of the arrangement we made,” she said, blushing a little. “But in every way. You have my heart. You have my love, my soul… you have my…”
I stepped into her, ending her struggle. Wrapping my arms around her, I kissed the tears away from both her cheeks.
“I know,” I said gently. “You don’t even have to say it. It’s wordless, really. It’s not something that can be explained.”
We both turned, looking back over the darkened fields. I snuggled in. Wrapped one arm around her warm waist, and hugged her tight.
“I should feel jealous,” I admitted with a laugh. “Every time I see you with the others. But somehow I’m not. Somehow I realize we all have you, and sharing you between us is part of the overall appeal.” I shrugged a little and smiled. “As long as it stays that way, there’s really nothing to be jealous of.”
Madison hugged me against her, as we stared out into nothing. The night air had cooled us, but what we’d just done had warmed us from within.
“I wish…” Madison began, her voice lost to the wind.
“You wish what?”
“I wish… well…”
She was glancing out into the field when suddenly her eyes flew open. Her whole body tensed, and she bolted upright.
“HOLY SHIT!”
It scared me, the abruptness of her sudden realization. All the hairs stood up on the back of my neck as I turned my gaze outward. Trying to see whatever it was she—
“IT WAS HIM!”
I still couldn’t see anything at all. The grassy field below seemed to sway gently with the summer wind. But other than that, nothing.
“Madison. what are you talking abou—”
“That thing in the field!” she exclaimed. “The way it moved. Those jerky, sweeping movements. Back and forth, back and forth…”
I shook my head. I still wasn’t getting it.
“I didn’t see the thing in the field,” I admitted. “You and Julian were the only ones who—”
“It was him!” Madison cried, grabbing both my arms. “The guy with the metal detector!”
I squinted back at her, still skeptical. “The guy you met with Chase?” I asked. “I wasn’t there for that either. I didn’t see—”
“It was the exact same movement!” she cried again. “Sweeping back and forth. Over and over again.” She wrung her hands in frustration. “I can’t believe I didn’t put it together before now! That I didn’t see—”
“But why would this guy even be out there,” I cut in. “Especially in the middle of the night?”
Madison dug her fingers deeper into my arms. “Because he’s looking for it.”
I opened my mouth, then closed it. Realization dawned over me.
“Are you saying—”
“It explains everything,” Madison jumped in. “Why he’s out there in the old field. Why he’s sneaking around at night. And the holes, Noah! The ones that were dug into the ground, at the edge of the clearing…”
“Alright, those I saw,” I said. “Chase showed me. The ground was all dug up, freshly disturbed.” My eyes narrowed. “Holy shit, do you really think—”
“YES!”
Madison was standing there in her gossamer nightshirt, still leaning on the battlement, holding one hand over her heart. She looked flushed and gorgeous. And so very, very alive.
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