Dream Wedding by Helen Brooks

Author:Helen Brooks [Helen Brooks]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459277649
Publisher: Harlequin

CHAPTER SIX

THEY drove back to the house in virtual silence under a cold, clear sky in which each tiny star was picked out in glittering detail, and Miriam couldn’t remember when she had felt more miserable in the whole of her life.

But why? she asked herself angrily a hundred times during the short journey. Reece Vance is nothing to you; his views on women and love are sad but you hardly know the man, for crying out loud. It doesn’t matter.

But it did, and by the time they reached the long, curving drive leading up to the house her nerves were as taut as piano-wire. She should have said something—anything—instead of sitting there staring at him like a small, dumb sheep, she told herself tightly as he brought the car to a halt just past the house. But she’d blown it; she’d absolutely blown it.

‘Miriam.’ As he cut the ignition and the powerful engine fell silent Reece turned to her in the soft darkness, one arm sliding round the back of her seat. ‘I shouldn’t have said all that about Barbara back there. Believe what you want to if it makes you happy; you might be right after all.’ There was no chance in the world that he believed that, she thought bleakly as she looked into the hard male face watching her so intently. ‘I hardly know Craig—’

‘Reece, you’re wrong—about anyone being incapable of love,’ she said quickly before she lost her nerve. ‘Even the worst monsters in history loved someone.’

‘Did they?’ His voice held that note which she had heard once or twice before—a thick, husky silkiness that melted her bones. ‘So fierce and determined, so vulnerable…’ And then he had taken her mouth in a kiss that made her shake with the sweetness of it, his lips moving coaxingly over hers as he pulled her close to him but with a gentleness that made her feel like something rare and precious in his embrace.

This was a line, just a well-practised line, she told herself helplessly as the kiss became more intimate, his mouth parting her lips with a soft sigh, but it was no good. The blood was pounding through her veins like fire and her ears were singing with a strange heat that took away all coherent thought. He wanted her—physically he wanted her very much, she told herself as the hardness in the big male body so close to hers became apparent. But that was all it was. An animal desire with no commitment, no real tenderness, no future.

But then, as his warm mouth stroked her neck and throat with a hundred fleeting kisses, she ceased to think and just let her senses feel.

His mouth moved back to hers and she realised that he had somehow slipped her coat off her shoulders, moving her slightly so that it fell beneath her waist as his hands moved up under the thin cotton of her jumper and touched the silky skin beneath. His touch was like a

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