From This Day Forward by Victoria Thompson

Author:Victoria Thompson [Thompson, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cowboy romance, cowboys, Fiction, General, Historical, historical western, Romance, western romance
ISBN: 9781625179371
Google: PzC6PAAACAAJ
Amazon: 082175663X
Publisher: NYLA
Published: 1997-07-14T04:00:00+00:00

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Adam woke her the next morning with kisses.

“Good morning, Mrs. Ross,” he told her when at last she realized she wasn’t dreaming and opened her eyes.

“Good morning,” she replied, her voice still rusty from sleep.

Adam was smiling, and he looked so handsome, even with his cheeks covered with morning stubble and his hair tousled, Lori couldn’t seem to stop looking at him.

“Do you know what day it is?” he asked her.

Her brain wasn’t quite functioning yet, so she needed a few seconds to remember. “Sunday?”

“The preacher is here this week, and I thought you might like to go to church.” Most of the area ministers had long since joined the Confederate Army, too, so those who remained were spread pretty thin and had to ride a large circuit, making regular services few and far between. “We do have something to be thankful for this morning, don’t we?”

Oh, yes, she thought, gazing up at his beautiful face. “And I haven’t had a chance to show off my new bride yet, either,” he added.

Plainly, he was looking forward to the prospect, although Lori wasn’t quite so enthusiastic. There would be questions. People would want to know why Adam Ross had so unexpectedly married a girl he’d never looked at twice. But at least she didn’t have to worry that anyone would ask those questions aloud of her and Adam. And later, when people found out she was pregnant and counted on their fingers, they would know, or at least they would think that they did. “Well, then, I guess we’d better get up and get ready hadn’t we?” she said, trying to match his cheerful mood. She was Adam Ross’s wife now. If she was still afraid, down deep inside, she wouldn’t let anyone know, not even him.

His smile told her he was pleased with her answer, but he said, “In just a minute. First I have to do this.” And he leaned over and kissed her long and hard, the way a man kissed his wife in the privacy of his bedroom.

Lori’s body responded instinctively, and almost of their own accord, her arms slipped around his neck to hold him close for as long as the kiss lasted. Vaguely, she realized that the shoulders she caressed were warm and completely bare, and when he finally, breathlessly, pulled away, she saw that his robe was gone and he was naked. Dear heavens, had he been that way all night?

“Maybe we shouldn’t go to church after all,” he mused, still staring down at her face and now with such longing that her heart lurched in her chest. “Maybe we should just stay right here for the rest of the day so I can show you what I meant when I said it can only get better between us, Lori.”

She gaped at him, shocked speechless at such a suggestion. Surely, he couldn’t mean it!

And then he chuckled, telling her he didn't mean it at all. “The look on your face!” he marveled and bent down to drop a last kiss on the end of her nose.

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