Hawk's Prize by Elaine Barbieri

Author:Elaine Barbieri
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781428502604
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.

Chapter Eight

“Wake up, Tricia.”

Tricia awakened slowly. Momentarily disoriented, she felt the comfort of warm body heat wrapped around her, and she burrowed instinctively closer.

“Tricia . . .”

She opened her eyes to the sudden reality that she was lying on a blanket in a forested clearing barely lit by dawn, and that she was looking up into the eyes of the man she loved. Emotion swelled as Drew touched his mouth to hers. She slid her arms around his neck when his kiss deepened, accommodating him with a need that rose to meet his. She felt the swell of his passion as his body moved against hers, and her own passion expanded as well. She gasped when he slid himself atop her. His mouth covered hers, and his male organ sought her intimate heat.

He entered her, and she briefly held her breath at the wonder of the moment. Looking up at Drew, at the passion reflected on his strong features, she encouraged him softly, and the dance of love began. She was breathless when he stilled briefly, as if wanting to say something, but his words went unexpressed in the rush of emotion that thrust them unexpectedly over the brink of passion.

When their bodies grew still minutes later, Tricia felt Drew turn her face up to his.

“Tricia . . . it wasn’t my intention to wake you up this way, but it all got beyond my control somehow.”

Tricia took a breath and glanced away. Reality. They could avoid it no longer.

Drew whispered, “Don’t turn away from me, Tricia. I need to have you tell me you’re not sorry this happened between us. I need to hear you say it wasn’t only sorrow that brought you into my arms, and that you still feel the same way you did last night. I need—”

“Here’s my answer to all your questions, Drew.” Tricia brought her lips to his for a kiss that said more than words ever could.

Staring wordlessly into her eyes for long moments after she pulled back, Drew said, “You know there are things I need to do when we get back to Galveston . . . things that can’t wait.”

Tricia’s gaze locked with his as she whispered, “I understand that last night didn’t change any of the bad things that happened before it. Willie was your friend, and you have to do all you can to find the person who killed him. That precedes everything else in your mind.”

“Not everything.”

Responding to his fleeting smile, Tricia whispered, “I know, but reality is hard. It intrudes into the most intimate moments and it won’t let you forget. No one knows that better than I.”

“There’s more I need to deal with than you know. My personal past as well as things that happened before the war ended . . . they’re all mixed up together somehow. I know now that’s part of the reason why I came back to Galveston with Willie in the first place. But the thing that sticks in my mind .

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