A Kiss in the Shadows by Marie Patrick

Author:Marie Patrick [Patrick, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2015-10-25T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Brock had loved the rain shower, the hot water flowing over him from above, washing away the dirt as well as some of his exhaustion. He now sat in the dining room on the other side of the hotel, revitalized, clean shaven, except for the mustache, which he decided made him look distinguished, and dressed in the new suit he’d bought himself after leaving the telegrapher’s office.

He checked his pocket watch for the fourth time and noted that the clock hand had only moved a fraction. It was still not quite seven o’clock. He had been early, eager to be in Stevie Rae’s company, which surprised him, yet didn’t. He glanced around the dining room, noting the number of finely dressed people occupying the tables. The wait staff, male and female alike, dressed in black and white, took orders or delivered meals. A violinist stood on a dais in the corner of the room near the stairs, his bow gliding over the strings of his violin to produce the most amazing sound Brock had ever heard. Though the music was soothing, he was becoming more and more anxious.

Where is she?

He glanced at his menu in an effort to resist checking his watch one more time when he became aware something in the atmosphere had changed. The din in the dining room—the clatter of cutlery, the hum of conversation, the sweet strains of violin music—died, leaving a stunned silence. Brock looked up from his menu, his gaze darting this way and that, taking in the other diners and the wait staff and realized they all, every single one of them, stared at the staircase. His gaze drifted that way, too, and in an instant, he knew why every last soul in the dining room had stopped to stare, why the room had silenced. His breath seized in his lungs.

A vision of loveliness glided down the rose-carpeted stairs, her white gloved hand resting on the polished mahogany banister. Honey blond curls bounced as she took each step. The blue velvet of her gown reflected in her eyes and somehow, made them sparkle more than usual.

Those eyes widened as they came to rest on him, and her smile—the one he’d pay his last dollar to see—spread her full, utterly kissable lips. A becoming blush rose to color her cheeks.

After weeks of riding side by side, never once seeing her without her reliable trousers or the split skirt she’d purchased in Taos, this was a side to Stevie Rae she’d kept hidden. She was beautiful then, but now? She was quite possibly the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen. And the other diners seemed to think so as well.

Caught in a spell he didn’t know he could succumb to, Brock dropped the menu on the table and rose from his seat.

He opened his mouth, several times, but the words were stuck in his throat as she drew closer to him, weaving between the other tables like an angel floating between clouds. If he had been a poet, he would have penned sonnets to the loveliness she portrayed.

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