Emotional Waves by Miller Maureen A

Author:Miller, Maureen A.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, romantic suspense, caribbean, cruise
Publisher: Maureen A. Miller

Chapter Seven

Get a grip, Jill. Step back.

She chanced a look at the face of the man that was making her heart drum a cadence no band could keep up with. Sunlight invaded the chamber and she stared at his pale scar with a combination of horror and tenderness. Now the crazy cowlick that kept his hair in disarray made sense. Beneath the dark hairline another scar lurked and she had to force her hand to remain submissive and not reach for it.

Brent was protecting her. Not physically. He was trying to guard her from getting hurt. Neither of them had enforced their distance, though. It was the fact that they couldn’t keep their hands off each other that had complicated matters.

Her heart was breaking for the teenager whose world was ripped apart. But before her stood the man that the teenager had evolved into−and this man was resplendent with honor. She looked at him in a new light, as if his shoulders were all the more broad and his height climbed higher than six feet. The indecision and regret in his eyes was real, though.

“Give me this day, Brent,” she whispered. “Just this day, and the future will play itself out. You know that it’s too late. You can’t spare me from being a frantic wreck over what happens to you, so let’s just allow ourselves this. Besides, I need you to hold my hand when I go to security to report the break in.”

“Like hell you do,” he chuckled. “I’ve seen how intimidated you are by things. God help the rest of the world if you’ve got a mission in mind.”

“I have a mission in mind.” She reached up and touched his face, watching as his eyelids dropped closed and a dent of pain formed on his brow. “Okay, hold my hand when I tell my mother about the break in.”

“Jill−”

“I won’t be a distraction.”

“Like hell you won’t.”

Brent rubbed his eye with the ball of his palm. “Damn, I’m tired.”

“It’s almost seven. You could take a nap. I’m sure the security office isn’t open until nine.”

“I would have hoped they were open 24 hours,” he smiled, but cast the bed a longing glance. “I couldn’t sleep if you were lying next to me.”

“Mmmm,” Jill tapped her chin. “Yeah, the same goes for me.” She took his hand and started tugging towards the bed. “You lay down and I’ll take a shower. How about that?”

Brent tugged back and when she was close enough he dipped his head and kissed her. “How about that?” No less than the time it took him to retreat from the kiss he was shaking his head. “Dammit, that wasn’t really exhibiting control was it?”

The touch of his lips still lingered. She wanted nothing more than to repeat it and sate the passion pent up inside her−passion waiting for a man just like this. But her ardent hero knelt on the edge of the bed and spilled diagonally across it, his head falling within an inch of the pillow.

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