Forever: A Novel of Good and Evil, Love and Hope by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books

She didn’t answer but just kept staring at the photo on the screen, so Adam clicked on exit, shut down the system, and closed the computer. “I think this is enough for one night,” he said, but when Darci still didn’t react, he did what instinct told him to: He pulled her into his arms and held her, her face buried against his shoulder.

“A shock, huh?” he asked softly.

She nodded against him.

“You’ve had a lifetime with one really bad parent, and—” She started to lift her head at that, but he held her down until she calmed. “Yes, one really bad, absent parent, and now you find that, all along, you’ve had a second parent.”

Pulling back, he turned her head so she could look at him, putting his fingertips under her chin. “You’re not going to chicken out on me now, are you?” he asked. “We’re going to contact him, aren’t we?”

“He might not like me,” Darci said in a tiny voice.

At that Adam smiled. “Not like you?!” he said. “How could he not like you? You’re smart, something you obviously inherited from him; you have such a great sense of humor that you can make even an old stick-in-the-mud like me laugh, and you’re frugal to the point of. . . . Well, anyway, you make people like you. You make friends with everyone everywhere and— Stop looking at me like that!” he said, then dropped his hand from her face and got up off the couch. “I told you that you were not allowed to use your power against me. No kissing thoughts!”

“I wasn’t using any power!” Darci said. “I was merely wishing very, very hard, that’s all. And why not? I thought you liked me. You were saying wonderful things about me.”

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.