Can't Stop Loving You by Miranda Liasson

Author:Miranda Liasson [Liasson, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503941533
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2016-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

Bella showered and slid into bed with a big, fat novel, something she did nearly every night, the room dark except for her bedside lamp. Tonight, especially, her mind needed the effects of a nice, calming love story to restore her equilibrium after Roman had knocked it off its shaky foundation. Besides, no matter how bad tonight had been, it was Friday. She was off the entire weekend. Except that tomorrow morning she was teaching a bulb-planting class at the garden center for her father, but that was more fun than work.

She ignored the stab of loneliness that gnawed at her heart. She was all right. She was always all right. She’d endure Roman, get Dad through his rehab and Tony through his last year of high school, then it was going to be time for her life to start. That was a promise.

Gracie was in her new doggie bed, flat on her back with legs up in the air snoring. She should be so lucky.

Bella heard a ping against her western window. She had the corner room, a room Gina had always personally coveted because of the windows facing two sides, west and south. A memory hit her, of Roman throwing pebbles at that window long ago. To save her from being alone during the worst night of her life. Until she’d turned him away.

Roman, Roman, Roman. She was sick of all the memories his return had stirred. She pushed them all aside and went back to reading her book. It was probably just an acorn or something, the result of those damn squirrels constantly chomping on them and letting pieces rain down everywhere.

Ping. Ping. More pebbles hit the window, sounding like sleet. Finally she got out of bed and raised the sash. She stifled a scream. Roman was on the trellis, a few feet under the window.

She clamped a hand over her mouth. Tried to breathe. Closed her eyes to get a grip.

“Oh good. You’re still up,” he said as if she wasn’t still trying to pick half of her startled body off of the ceiling. She opened her eyes to see a grin light his handsome face. He let a handful of small stones fall from his palm to the ground and dusted off his hands.

She held a hand over her chest, where her heart was practically beating out of it in terror. “What are you doing here?” she hissed. “Like most people in this century, I do have a phone, you know.”

He quirked up a corner of his mouth. “Somehow, after tonight, I didn’t think you’d give me your number.” He reached the window, both of his long-fingered hands draped over the sill. She’d always admired his beautiful hands. “I’m sorry I scared you. Can I come in?”

Everything about him invoked the romance of a clandestine night meeting. The black-as-night hair, catching a glint from the one dim light. The big brown eyes, innocently pleading. The big chest and lean, muscular forearms, so much more defined than when he was a boy.

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