Yet another first for Anna was in the making. There had been the private jet that had dropped her and Kevin off in Reykjavík along with James, who insisted that she now call him Flint.
Now she was hovering in a chopper over the most barren godforsaken looking land she'd ever seen in her life. Nothing but black rock, snow and dead looking grass greeted her eyes. This was Iceland.
It looked cold, barren and very lonely. Still if this was where Tyre wanted to be then she would be here also. But they would definitely be going somewhere warm for vacations!
Flint was flying the chopper and Anna noticed him shaking his head, as a rueful smile played across his features.
"What is it?"
He pointed ahead.
They were just clearing the rim of an up thrust in the rugged terrain and Anna saw a house that reflected crisp clean lines of construction situated in the center of the basin beyond the rim they had just cleared.
"Only Tyre would build his home on the base floor of a dormant volcano." Flint said laughing.
"Volcano!" Anna squeaked out in disbelief.
"Yeah this whole basin is the caldera of a dormant volcano." Flint said, as he brought the chopper down onto the icy black rock before the house and then shut it off.
Flint got out and helped Anna and Kevin out of the chopper, but stayed with it as the two began to make their way across the short expanse of distance toward the lone figure of a man standing in the entrance way of the house.
I watched her come toward me. I couldn't imagine how she had found me, but it was a wild dream come true! My eyes drifted down to Kevin. It had been him of course that had found me I realized.
Thank God for his gifts!
They stepped up in front of me and it looked like Anna had a lot to say, but nothing came out and she seemed to give up on the words as she stepped forward and hugged me hard. I hugged her back and heard her say against my neck,
"I don't want to be safe if it means living without you!"
I nodded and said, "I'm so sorry! I made a mistake!"
"You're forgiven." She leaned back her face all teary, as she shook a finger at me, "But don't do it ever again Mister, you got me!"
"Yes ma'am!"
I opened the door behind me and ushered her and Kevin inside.
"I need to talk to Flint for a moment okay?"
She nodded, as she started to take her and Kevin's coats off in the warm interior of the house. It was hard to step away from them, when I had already felt them lost for forever and now they were here with me.