"Come on." She knew he had to check in with the others soon, but now.. now she just wanted to feel his arms around her.
She hadn't been the only one to go through this and wasn't even sure what all of 'this' was. So, taking the hand of the arm he had around her she walked around the house and toward the beach. Once they reached the water's edge she looked out over it and lifted her chin as the breeze washed over them. After a moment she looked down at the hand she held and the wedding ring there, then brought it and his arm around her, laying the back of her head against the front of his shoulder. Derek slipped his other arm around her as well and held her tightly. "Are you going to be all right?" He really wanted to ask if they were going to be all right. Right now,t he only guilt he felt was with regard to any strain this was putting on their marriage.
