Caris lay on her belly on a rock on which Malachi had put blanket down for her. She was reading her book and enjoying the feel of the sunshine on her. Every once in a while, a dragonfly would buzz by or land near her and she would stop reading to stare at the pretty green and gold colors as it flitted around. She was getting better at pretending the bees and wasps occasionally flying by weren’t going to sting her or get tangled in her hair which she had smartly braided loosely down her back.
Malachi was several yards away, fishing and occasionally she looked on while he wrestled with a fish and then reel it in and then ever so gently, remove the hook and put it back in the water. Then he would start the process all over again. She admitted, there was nothing enthralling about what he was
