Chapter 51

Part 4: Midsummer Dreams

Summer Holiday tossed and turned in the middle of a dream that had visited on and off her whole life. She knew she was dreaming, but she didn't want it to end.

The sand was warm beneath her feet and the surf lapped softly against the shore. No one else was around, just the two of them. The handsome, golden-haired man gazed at her with his midnight-blue eyes. He reached for her and she walked into his arms. He was mostly naked, a pair of cut-off jeans his only covering. She had on a sundress, with a bikini underneath. This part of the dream was the same, had been since she could remember. As she'd gotten older though, it had grown more and more explicit. Now, sometimes the dream carried through until they'd both come, and Summer wanted that tonight. It had been a long week, and she needed some sort of release.

"Summer." He murmured her name into her hair as he hugged her close. That had been added to the dream sometime in her teen years. They'd shared names and