Midnight Pearls
“He smiled at her, and the gesture sent shivers up her spine. She prayed that God would have mercy and strike her dead before she reached them.
“James!” she shouted as loud as she could.
When there was no reply, Pearl turned and tried to run down the beach. Her wet skirt slowed her, and she fell to her knees several times. She kept struggling back up, though. She reached the end of the beach and turned around, running back the other way. Nothing.
She headed back up the beach more slowly, inspecting the sand for footprints as well. Maybe, just maybe, he had reached the beach first and went to get help. She clung to the slender thread of hope, though in her heart she didn’t believe it. He would not have left with her still in the water.
The only sets of footprints she found farther up the beach were hers and the ones they had left earlier when they’d arrived. She turned back and scanned the length of the beach once more.
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