Green Turtle

Anna leant forward and gave Rosa a hug. She felt her breasts against hers and breathed in her perfume.

“Erik did not deserve you,” said Anna. “Go have your walk, take the mutt with you.”

“Kara, come,” said Rosa to the dog, “let’s go to the beach,” and she unhooked a frisbee from the wall.

Anna watched her through the door as Rosa strode out over the dunes with the black lab.

Behind her the hangar was quiet save for the gurgling as halibut broke the surface of their growing tanks.

They had been together now for six months, Anna and Rosa, two marine biologists working here in the Orkney Islands trying to crack the mystery of the breeding habits of the halibut for a university.

They dressed casual. Rosa’s retreating figure was clad in jeans, a fleece and walking boots. She was from Brazil, now twenty-nine and had worked all over the world on different research projects. She spoke Portuguese, English and Italian. Long dark hair framed a light brown triangular face. Her large eyes were round and wide set, the pupils dark as midnight, the lashes long and curving.

At five two she was a little smaller than Anna’s five foot six, yet she had an athletic hourglass build.

Anna in contrast was not only taller, heavier,

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Texte: alastair macleod
Bildmaterialien: alastair macleod:" turtle hatchlings entering the sea," photo purchased from dreamstime royalty free photos.
Cover: title typeset in classical
Lektorat: alastair macleod
Satz: alastair macleod
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 28.10.2017
ISBN: 978-3-7438-3869-7

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To the the Great Mother Ocean and the work of marine biologists and conservationists everywhere. And of course to the beautiful turtles. The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.