Crossed Hearts (Matchmaker Trilogy) by Barbara Delinsky

Author:Barbara Delinsky
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

6

WHEN LEAH AWOKE the next morning, Garrick was beside her. He was sprawled on his stomach, his head facing away, but one of his ankles was hooked around hers in a warm reminder of the events of the night before. Heart swelling with happiness, she took a deep breath and stretched. Then she rolled against him, slipped a slender arm over his waist and sighed contentedly.

Weak slivers of light filtered through the shutters, dimly illuminating the room. It was still raining, she knew, but the patter on the roof had eased to a gentle tap, and anyway, she didn’t care what the weather was. Garrick had said she could stay as long as she wanted. She wasn’t going to think about leaving.

When the body against her shifted, she slid her hand forward, up over his middle to his chest. His own covered it, and then he was turning to look at her.

It was the very first time in his life that Garrick had awoken pleased to find a woman in his bed. He smiled. “Hi.”

Oh, how she loved his voice, even that lone word, working like fine sandpaper to make her tingle. “Hi.”

“How did you sleep?”

“Like a baby.”

“You don’t look like a baby.” His gaze was roaming her face, taking in the luster of mussed hair on her forehead, the luminous gray of her eyes, the softness of lips that had been well kissed not so very long ago. “You look sexy.”

She blushed. “So do you.”

His eyes skimmed lower, over her neck to her breasts. “I’ve never seen you in daylight,” he said softly.

“You have.”

“Not nude.” Very gently he eased back the covers, allowing himself a full view of her body. His gaze touched her waist, the visible line of her pelvis and the length of her legs before returning to linger on the shadowed apex of her thighs. “You’re lovely.”

Leah was trembling, but not only because of the way he was looking and the sensual sound of his voice. When he’d pulled back the covers he’d bared himself, as well, and what she saw was breathtaking. With his tapering torso, his lean hips and tightly muscled legs, he was a great subject for a sculptor. But it was his sex that held her spellbound, for it was perfectly formed, incredibly full and heavy.

“I do want you,” he whispered. “I think I’ve been like this all night, dreaming of you.”

“You don’t have to dream,” she breathed. “I’m here.”

“So hard to believe …” Shifting so that he crouched over her, he let his hands drift over each part of her in turn. When he reached her belly, he sat back on his haunches, then watched his fingers lower to brush the dark tangle of curls. He stroked her lightly, but even that light touch spread heat like wildfire through her veins.

“Garrick …”

“Warm and beautiful.”

“I need you …”

His eyes met hers, and there was an intensity in them that held more than one form of passion. “I want you too. I want that more than anything.

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