Doctors in Flight by Meredith Webber

Author:Meredith Webber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

BIG mistake! His lips join in, parting mine, his tongue explores and a zillion nerves respond with a ferocity that scares me because I feel as if I’m truly alive for the first time in twenty-seven years.

Kisses can’t do this, I tell myself, still kissing because I can’t stop. Can’t bear the thought of not feeling the magic his touch generates in my body. His hands clasp my shoulders, steadying me but sending as many messages as his lips. I want those hands moving, exploring, touching all the acutely sensitised parts of my body he’s awakened.

Underneath the passion-killers my body heats with a subversive hunger so strong that common sense and self-preservation are all but swept away.

All but!

I remember my origins and the fear that’s always haunted me—that I might turn out to be like my mother after all. The kiss is kindling a desire so strong I want to tear off his clothes, and my clothes, and do something to ease the ache.

Is this how she felt?

Again and again, as Uncle Joel’s wife, Jill, claims? Or just with the polo player?

I don’t know, but the ‘again and again’ part terrifies me. If I give in once, will that be my fate?

‘I need to breathe,’ I whisper, and ease my body, which is practically glued to GR’s, a safe distance away.

Safe? Two hundred k. might be safe. Or two thousand.

He reaches out and touches my hair, flicking his finger at a strand of it.

‘Shall I tell your gran the pyjamas didn’t work, or will you?’ he says, the little quirk lifting the corner of his mouth in a rueful smile.

Once again the suspicion that this is a really nice man flutters through my head, but really nice plus zap-power is probably more dangerous than downright nasty.

Really nice can get a girl in trouble.

‘I don’t think we’ll mention it,’ I tell him, realising for the first time he’s had his glasses on right through the kiss.

‘It’s a wonder the rims didn’t melt,’ I mutter, and he reaches up to touch the frames then laughs.

‘Tell me I didn’t have them on the first time I kissed you. Surely I had enough class to take them off.’

‘They were off, because you were changing,’ I assure him, but I have to smile. He’s so obviously confused by what’s happening I’m beginning to believe he really meant what he said when he talked to Gran about love. Here he is, thirty-five and still waiting for the miracle to happen. Still putting off proposing to the dustbin to give love a chance to come along.

But is love like that? Does it just happen? Might he not have to go in search of it?

I get this far then realise I don’t want him searching for it. I forget my own qualms about what’s happening between us and decide I want him considering whether love might not be right here. I want him considering that the glitch might be more than just a glitch.

After four days! I’m

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