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“Great! Tell me what to do.”
“Okay, you need to lie on your back.” She pushed to her feet and moved off the mat. “Go ahead. Put your head here.”
He lay down with his body half on the mat. “This doesn’t feel very strenuous.”
She moved to the opposite side of the mat and knelt by his head. “Yoga isn’t about strenuous. It’s about the coming together of the mind, body, and soul.”
She pivoted up, resting her knees on the backs of her arms as she’d done before, only this time she moved quicker, and she lowered her lips to his, kissing him through their smiles. When her lips lifted, she beamed down at him and said, “That made concentratingsomuch easier. I think I’m going to like our joint yoga sessions.”
Chapter Twenty-Five
“THANK YOU SO much for inviting me to your class,” Diana said to Emery Saturday morning at the end of her yoga class. “I really enjoyed it. Can I sign up for weekly classes?”
“Sure. There’s a schedule on the Summer House website. You can sign up or just drop in when you feel like taking a class. I’m glad you made it out this morning.”
“Me too. Thanks again.” Diana waved as she headed toward the parking lot.
Emery thanked the other women and men who were rolling up their mats, and talked with a few of them before they made their way to their cars. Her class size had nearly doubled over the past week, thanks to the referrals from the resort and word of mouth. She was glad the weather had held out so she could hold the class outdoors. She saw Serena and Mira heading her way. Serena had not only sent her referrals from the resort, but she and Mira had attended this morning’s class and had brought three friends with them.
“Thanks to Des, Vi, and the guys, word travels fast around here,” she said to Serena. Although Violet didn’tdoyoga classes, she had referred several people over the last few weeks, and Desiree asked every new customer if they’d like to take part in Emery’s classes, maintaining a constant influx of curious tourists. “I hope your friends liked the class.”
She watched their friends Jana and her sister, Harper, who were as blond as their friend Sky was brunette, roll up their mats. They were all very animated, which Emery hoped meant they had enjoyed the class.
“You might have to stop taking drop-ins,” Mira suggested as the girls joined them.
“Or hold more classes,” Emery said, although with the way things were going at LOCAL, she didn’t want to tie herself up too much. She hoped to continue to grow that aspect of her business as well. “I’ll have to see how things go. I assume a lot of these people are here on vacation and probably won’t show up for more than a few classes.”
“We’re not tourists,” Harper said. “I’ll definitely be back.” She pulled the elastic band from her hair and shook her head. A mass of blond tumbled past her shoulders. “I think you’d have a hard time keeping Jana and Sky away now that they’ve discovered your classes. They both get off on this kind of thing.”
“Oh yeah, we’ll be back,” Jana said. “Hopefully we’ll bring a few of the other girls from Seaside, too.”
“Seaside?” Emery asked.
“It’s a cottage community down the road, off Route 6,” Mira explained. “Matt’s brother Pete and his wife, Jenna, have a place there. Matt stayed there the summer we got together. I’m surprised you haven’t met any of our Seaside friends yet.”
“She has now,” Jana pointed out. “The Seaside cottages have been owned by the same families forever. They’re like one big happy family.”
“I was staying there when I met Sawyer, too. I think there’s something in the water that makes people fall in love. But I hear some of that magic has traveled over to Bayside. You and Dean?” Sky pointed over Emery’s shoulder to Dean stepping from his truck.
“You know about me and Dean?” Emery couldn’t suppress her smile as she watched Dean walking toward her with a wolfish grin. They had talked this morning, and she felt much better than she had last night. Dean was going to give his father some time to cool off before trying to reason with him, and he planned to call his mother later today, after they moved Emery’s things into his house. A thrill darted through her at the realization that this wasn’t a temporary stopover, or a let’s-see-how-it-goes situation. They were a couple in love, and they’d made the decision to cohabitate. A truly heartfelt decision. This was their lives. Theirfuture. And she couldn’t be happier.
“If she didn’t know before, she could have guessed by the way he’s visually devouring you,” Mira said.
“Actually, it was my fault,” Serena said. “If it was a secret, you should have clued me in.”
“It’s not,” she said as Dean reached for her.
“What’s not a secret? That you’re moving in with me?” Dean leaned in for a kiss and said, “Hey, doll. I missed you.”
“Geez. You’ve turned into a sap,” Serena teased. “You guys are moving in together for real? Like, not just because of a naked man in the kitchen?”
Dean pulled Emery against his side and said, “The only naked man in her kitchen from now on is going to be me.”
“She is one lucky girl,” Harper whispered too loudly to Jana.
“I can hear you,” Emery said with a smile. “And I have to agree.”
Harper leaned closer to Sky and said, “Maybe I need to stay at Seaside or Bayside, so I can have some of that magic work for me, too.”
