Brave by Dawson Zoe & The 12 NAs of Christmas

Author:Dawson, Zoe & The 12 NAs of Christmas [Dawson, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: New adult romance, Christmas romance, Snowbound romance, Christmas novella, NA contemporary romance, College romance, Holiday romance
ISBN: 9780988418844
Publisher: Blue Moon Creative
Published: 2013-10-24T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Alissa

I did understand. That was the problem. But, I still wanted him. That hadn’t changed one bit. It still hurt. The way I had looked at him had been no joke. But it was probably for the better. I tried to think around his nakedness, like he had beautiful eyes or his hair was so sinfully dark. But there was no getting that chest out of my mind, those washboards, his powerful thighs and his…oh, man, the part that made him so deliciously male. Well, that was just as impressive as the rest of his ridiculously gorgeous body.

I could break Dakota down into body parts as if that was all there was to him, but I was a woman and seeing a man like that…well it had impact on a purely physical and hormonal level. But I had already seen inside him, and I knew his heart was just as beautiful as his physical appearance.

He set the plate of eggs in front of me, and my hand seemed to move with a will of its own. I grazed his forearm, just a brush of my fingertips, compelled to connect to him and thank him.

I needed to touch him. It was a compulsion I couldn’t seem to control. All of his pain, all of his courage—all of him—just took my breath away. I’ve never wanted a man more. But I shouldn’t just go against his wishes. He wanted to be isolated; he’d come out here for his privacy, and I’d crashed into it with a mission of my own.

I felt ashamed that I would or could so easily forget my promise to Charlie. He was depending on me. I was his hope and his prayer and his Pooh Bear. I couldn’t fail him.

Dakota didn’t say anything. He just stood there gazing at my lips, my eyes, roving over my hair. And although his expression never changed, I felt his intensity. I was used to his face now, his male beauty, and the tantalizing man behind those gunmetal gray eyes.

But after seeing him in all his…glory—I groped for equilibrium and found that instead of steadying myself, I was the one who was losing it. The memory of him lying on his side, the power of his muscles, those tantalizing heavy lids relaxed over his dark silver eyes, like the moon on a wild and cloudy night, just…

Our eyes met then, and for an instant it hung between us, the image of him fully, and spectacularly naked. I felt my skin grow hot with the memory. His mouth seemed tense with some unspoken emotion, and I suddenly felt that I was precariously too close to him.

Desire flared in his eyes. But was so quickly gone, I wasn’t sure I’d actually seen it. He was so unbelievably beguiling, focusing all the controlled energy of him into a ray of light on my heart.

“Eat your eggs before they get cold. You’ll like them, being a Pooh Bear.”

I felt a different kind of hunger, one I hadn’t known before my eyes met his as he looked down and saw me on that ledge.

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