About That Kiss by Cindy Miles

Author:Cindy Miles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Superromance
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

BY THE TIME Nathan parked the truck and they climbed out, the sky over Cassabaw had shifted from sky blue to lavender, striped with hues of sienna and rose as the sun sank into the horizon. The constant sea breeze caressed Sean’s face and tousled her hair, and Nathan, walking beside her in the alabaster sand, slipped his hand into hers, winding their fingers together. For the hundredth time that day, Sean’s heart surged.

He glanced down, a smile dancing in his eyes as he led her and Willa to the old lighthouse keeper’s cottage. Around back, close to the dunes covered with wispy sea oats waving in the wind, a wooden swing hanging from a wooden frame faced the lighthouse.

Sean and Nathan sat close on it, hands clasped, and watched Willa as she ran along the dunes like a whimsical sea fairy, with her delicate wings flapping in the breeze behind her. They waited for the last tour to finish in the lighthouse, and it was so easy just being with Nathan. They connected. He didn’t ask questions, never imposed demands. He simply...was there. All of him, there for her and Willa. Never had Sean encountered such ease and comfort in another human being, other than Willa. It completely astounded her. She liked the feeling. A lot.

“So tell me,” Sean started to say, turning slightly to Nathan. He sat tall beside her, his muscular thighs taking up a good portion of the swing as he reclined in that easy way guys reclined, with legs spread just so, casual and carefree. The breeze lifted his hair from his collar, and his profile shined bronze in the fading sun. It was all Sean could do to keep her concentration. She cleared her throat. “Jep used to run around here as a little boy?”

Nathan laughed softly and nodded, pointing to the keeper’s cottage. “There are photographs of Jep running with a kite—” he nudged his arm toward her “—much like this one, running around the dunes. Head full of crazy curls.”

“Much like yours,” Sean commented. “I can’t wait to see.”

Nathan’s eyes were shining. His fingers squeezed hers. “I like that you’ve taken to my family,” he said. “To that crazy old man.”

Sean laughed, and the breeze swallowed it up. “It’s kind of impossible not to fall for that crazy old man.” Sean dared to glance at their clasped hands, and again noticed the ring on his finger. It brought to mind an image of a young Jep, and how the sea influenced not only his own life, but the lives of his son, his grandsons. She wondered briefly what Jep had been like as a rescue swimmer. As a young man.

Sean focused again on Nathan’s ring, silver in color, with a blue background on its face, decorated with gold anchors and engraved with the insignia. Sean scraped it gently with her finger. “You should be extremely proud of this,” she said cautiously. “I don’t want to unearth the hurt you bear, Nathan.

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