37 Her Highness and the Bodyguard by Christine Rimmer

Author:Christine Rimmer [Rimmer, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 0373657331
Amazon: B00ALTVMIE
Publisher: Harlequin Special Editon
Published: 2013-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

When Rhia got home from the museum at six the next afternoon, Marcus was there. Dressed in jeans and a knit shirt, he rose from the sofa in the living room when she entered.

“Rhia.” He set down the big coffee-table book he’d been looking at and stood to face her. His shoulders were broader than ever, it seemed to her at that moment. And his eyes...such serious eyes.

They regarded each other. She’d been thinking about him all day, trying to take her sister’s advice and think positively. And it had worked, in the main. She’d found herself feeling a rather lovely sense of anticipation for this little experiment in intimacy of theirs.

But now that he was here and she was here and they would have some time to be together that wasn’t secret or furtive or only for one night, well, somehow she felt a little awkward. And a lot nervous.

“Is your room all right?” she asked.

“It’s beautiful. Very comfortable. Thank you.” He studied her face. “You look more rested.”

She laughed, a slightly off-kilter sound. “I... Yes. I am. Not long after you left, I climbed into bed and went right to sleep. I slept eight hours straight through. And when I got up, I felt better than I have in weeks. I actually ate a big breakfast. And it even stayed down.”

“Good.”

“Would you like a drink or a snack? Dinner is usually at seven-thirty....”

“A little whiskey, I suppose.”

“Let me get you some.” She went to the small wet bar in a corner alcove. “Ice?”

“Neat, thanks.” He came closer.

She took the stopper from the crystal decanter and poured him two fingers in a short glass. By then, he was behind her. She turned and handed him the glass.

His fingers brushed hers as he took it and a lovely, hot shiver sang under her skin at the contact. “Thank you.” He sipped.

She leaned back against the marble counter of the bar, her hands behind her, gripping the cool rim of smooth stone, and looked up at him. “I feel so...strange. Like this isn’t quite real, you know?” He said nothing, only watched her, taking another sip, his eyes going slightly golden, somehow. And she heard herself rambling on, “After all these years, you and me, here in my house. Learning to be together in an everyday way. Sometimes I used to imagine, what it might have been. If you and I had managed to stay together, to make a life together....” Her sentence trailed off. For a moment, there was silence between them.

And then he said, “Marry me.”

She shouldn’t have, but she thrilled at those two simple words. He moved in closer, set the glass on the counter beside her and then stepped even closer, caging her neatly between his strong arms. More hot shivers cascaded through her.

He said, “If you marry me, you won’t have to wonder anymore. We will be together. For the rest of our lives.”

She felt breathless, mesmerized by the sound of his voice, the gold lights in his green eyes.

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