First impressions by Nora Roberts

Author:Nora Roberts [Roberts, Nora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Carpenters, Teachers, Contemporary, Christmas stories, General, Romance, Neighbours, Businessmen, Mail Order, Maryland, Fiction, Business & Economics, Love stories
ISBN: 9780373285389
Publisher: Silhouette Books
Published: 2006-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

“Oh, God, I think I’m going to burst!” Shane drank down the whole glass of water without a breath.

“Your boyfriend got just what he deserved,” Vance murmured, glancing after them. “She’ll regiment everything right down to their sex life.” Thoughtfully he looked after them. “Do you think they have one yet?”

“Oh, stop,” Shane begged, savaging her lip in defense. “I’ll be hysterical in a minute.”

“Do you suppose she picked out that tie he’s wearing?” Vance asked.

Giving up, Shane burst into laughter. “Oh, damn you, Vance,” she whispered when Laurie turned her head. “I was doing so well too.”

“Want to give them something to talk about over dinner?” Before she could answer, Vance pulled her across the narrow booth and planted a long, lingering kiss on her lips. To keep Shane from ending it too soon, he caught her chin in his hand and held her still. He drew her away for only seconds, tilting her head, then pressing his mouth to hers again at a fresh angle. He heard her give a tiny moan of distress. Though she lifted a hand to his shoulder to push him away, when he deepened the kiss, she allowed it to lie unresisting until he took his lips from hers.

“Now you’ve done it,” she said when she gathered her wits again. “By noon tomorrow it’ll be all over Sharpsburg that we’re lovers.”

“Will it?” Smiling, he lifted her hand to his lips, then slowly kissed her fingers one by one. It satisfied him to feel the faint tremor of arousal.

“Yes,” Shane answered breathlessly, “and I don’t …” she trailed off when he turned her palm up to press another long kiss in its center.

“Don’t what?” he asked softly, taking his lips to the inside of her wrist. Her pulse pounded against the light trace of his tongue.

“Think it’s—it’s wise,” she managed, forgetting the restaurant and Cy and Laurie and everything else.

“That we’re lovers or that it’s all over Sharpsburg?” Vance enjoyed the confusion in her eyes and the knowledge that he had put it there.

Her pulse beat jerkily. He was different. Reckless? she thought, and felt a fresh thrill race down her spine. Smooth? How could he be both at once? Yet he was. The recklessness was in his eyes, but the romantic moves were smooth with experience.

She hadn’t been afraid of the hard, angry man she had met, but she felt a skip of fear for the one who even now traced his thumb over the speeding pulse at her wrist.

“I’m going to have to give that some thought,” she murmured.

“Do that,” he said agreeably.

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