Between the Orange Groves by Nadia Marks

Author:Nadia Marks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

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Did she really see love in Enver’s eyes, Anastasia asked herself, or did she only see what she desired? She had no way of knowing. She only knew how he made her feel, which was something like love – a strange unfamiliar sensation that disturbed her deeply. She believed she knew about love; after all, she loved Panos, or why else would she have agreed to marry him? Yet when Enver’s eyes were upon her they caressed her with such intensity she felt as if her skin was on fire. Neither Panos’s eyes, nor his hands, had ever sent such signals to her brain as to leave her breathless. She was no stranger to loving, she had plenty in her heart for the people she knew – in fact it was her chief motivation in life – but this, this kidnapping of her thoughts and senses she had never encountered before, and it was thrilling and frightening all at once.

Enver, at the age of twenty-four, had been in love several times with both English and Turkish girls, but none had ever had the effect that this Cypriot beauty had on him. From the very first moment he met her he was captivated. She drew him to her like a magnet and apart from her obvious good looks he sensed something else, something he had never felt with any other girl who came his way. There was a hint of rebelliousness about her which excited him; she was like a graceful gazelle, with eyes warm and sweet as mountain honey that spoke to him more than words ever could. No sooner had he met her than he wanted to take her in his arms and kiss her lips, which her eyes were inviting him to do. He too had stayed awake that first night after they met in a torment of opposite impulses, scolding himself that he should keep away from the girl. Apart from being a family friend she was a Christian, a Greek. There would be no way she would ever have him, it was unheard of, and besides his aunt had told him the girl was already spoken for and betrothed to be married.

Anastasia and Enver both knew, both recognized and accepted silently and secretly to themselves, that their attraction to each other was mutual and momentous and had been simultaneously consumed by the same disturbing feelings for each other. Romantic love or erotic attraction, whatever this was, did not concern them. All they knew was that what they felt was both real and utterly impossible.

During the days that followed the two young people spent most of their time trying to avoid each other lest anyone pick up on the chemistry between them. Enver feared he couldn’t be responsible for his own behaviour if he came near Anastasia, while for her part, she knew that her actions would soon give away her feelings if she stood too close to him. She fretted about it privately and alone, not knowing who to turn to.

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