“Or not,” I stated and he laughed.

“I guess you’re a tough lady to choose up in a bar.”

“Is that what you’re making an attempt to do? Decide me up in a bar?” I had meant the remark to be enjoyable, flirtatious even. However as I spoke, I leaned in nearer to him, I didn’t even notice I used to be doing it till I had. When Jason’s eyes darted to the entrance of my costume and down it I felt a nice thrill as want crammed me.

“Why do I really feel that the tables have immediately been turned on me,” Jason requested and leaned nearer to me.

“Would that be an issue?” I teased and smiled up at him.

“Depends upon what you’re in search of. What would you like?”

It was an excessive amount of of a loaded query and one I wasn’t able to reply, one I didn’t know the reply to. “I’m not that totally different from another lady. I will be picked up at a bar, if I need to.”

He leaned away from me and completed off his drink. The spell had been damaged and I knew it was for the most effective, however I nonetheless longed to have him take a look at me the way in which he had a second earlier than.

“The riddle, what do you assume it means?” Jason requested as he pushed his drink to the bartender asking for an additional.

“I found out the second half however I couldn’t work out the primary. It’s a ship, I feel. However I’m undecided the place it might be. There are loads of ships in Monterey,” I stated.

“Ah, that is smart. I found out the primary half, it’s the ocean and now the road “deep under” falls into place. I do know the place we have to go subsequent.”

“Diving?” I spotted what he was getting at or what Kevin needed us to do. “There must be dozens if no more shipwrecks all alongside the coast right here. How do we all know which one he needs us to go to?”

“Probably, however there’s one which’s extra well-known than all of the others and I feel that’s the place he would need us to go. It was additionally one of many first locations that he ever went diving.”

“The place is that?”

It fascinated me at instances how a lot Jason knew about his father that I didn’t. I questioned if there have been issues he simply stored from me or that he by no means bought round to sharing. I might inform that Jason preferred that he had a few of his father that I used to be by no means going to have, however the identical was true with the connection I had with Kevin.

“Level Joe. It’s a spot stuffed with shipwrecks alongside 17-mile drive simply on the south tip of the drive.”

“I’ve by no means been to 17-mile drive however I at all times needed to. I suppose we’ll be doing that tomorrow. And diving. Are you prepared for it?”

“As I’ll ever be,” Jason stated after which took a sip of his drink. His eyes held mine as he requested “Are you able to be my associate?”

He was asking if I could possibly be his dive associate for the dive, one thing that each one divers ought to have for security in addition to it helped to benefit from the dive for those who did it with another person. We might be on what I used to be positive was some rocky shores and would possibly even must get a ship to get to the spot, assuming the climate allow us to. We would want to depend on one another as we had the final couple of days however on a totally totally different stage. I beloved diving however I used to be choosy about who I dove with. Finally, they may have my life of their fingers and if somebody had requested me every week in the past if I’d have gone diving with Jason, I’d have advised them they had been loopy. However as I checked out him, I knew he was asking me not provided that I’d go diving with him tomorrow but when I’d be keen to be a associate in additional.

I didn’t know easy methods to reply him as a result of I began to see what it could possibly be like if we had been concerned and all I might do was softly nod my head.

Chapter 12

Jason

Are you able to be my associate?

I thought of my query and the seems to be that Natalie gave me all through the evening and as we went to the dive web site the subsequent morning. Identify, recognition, and cash all allowed us to get a divemaster, boat, and tools to go dive at Level Joe the subsequent day. It had virtually been too straightforward and I questioned if they’d recognized we’d be calling them.

It was a bit chilly and crisp however the winds and seas had been comparatively calm and it seemed like it might be day for a dive. We might have gone from the seashore because the spot we had been going to was solely in about fifty ft of water however we had each agreed the boat can be simpler, faster, and fewer of a trouble. I feel Natalie wasn’t positive how properly I might deal with a surf entry and a floor swim to the location. I simply thought it might be simpler and extra fulfilling to be on the boat then making an attempt to do an extended swim and put on ourselves out.

Natalie had been quiet after we had met within the foyer and had a fast chunk earlier than heading to the dock and the boat. I questioned if she slept as poorly as me and had thought of my query and if she had a solution for me. I might inform she knew I used to be asking extra than simply being my dive associate however my associate in different issues. The sexual chemistry and rigidity between us stored rising and I felt like it might burst. I had to withstand the urge to take her hand, and even higher but, kiss her all day yesterday.

I left her alone, I wasn’t positive how she preferred to arrange herself for a dive and if she had gone since my father had handed. I knew they’d dove regularly when he was alive and I might think about this was simply one other painful reminder of what she had misplaced. I had solely gone diving with my father a handful of instances however all of them had been memorable. For me, I used to be cherishing the instances that I had with my father whereas Natalie appeared to only think about the truth that she would not have any extra.

As we bought nearer to the location, Rick, our divemaster and information stated, “We must be on the web site in about 5 minutes. There are quite a few wrecks on this space however none of them are intact. You’ll nonetheless see some wooden and steel left over from the ships and the critters which have taken up residence. We’ll begin the dive in about sixty ft after which make a large circle testing the websites. We would get fortunate and see a number of sharks. There are some octopus that wish to take up residence within the space and I’ll see if I can discover them. We’ll examine our air and ensure we begin heading up after we attain 1000 psi, do our security cease and be accomplished.”

“Sounds good,” I stated and seemed over at Natalie.

“Yeah. Let’s get this over with,” she stated and turned to prepare.

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