Here With Me by Beverly Long

Author:Beverly Long
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Man-Woman Relationships, General, romance napa valley time travel, Fiction
ISBN: 9780739476482
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2006-10-15T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

He’d expected the room to be empty. But Melody lay on her bed with barely a stitch on. Her shirt, which had skinny little straps, hugged her full breasts tight and stopped just inches below them, leaving her rounded stomach bare. The vee at the top of her legs was covered by an almost transparent little scrap of material and he could see the hair between her legs.

She was lovely. There was no other word for it. And he badly wanted to touch her. To stroke her smooth skin, to brush a hand across her nipples and see them beg for more attention, to spread her legs and taste her sweetness.

He could tell by the gentle rhythm of her breathing that she was sleeping. Her hair looked wet and her pillow damp, like she’d gotten out of the shower, gotten partially dressed, and then stopped to rest. He couldn’t stop staring at her stomach. It amazed him to think that as the weeks grew to months, her smooth skin could stretch enough to accommodate her growing child.

In his time, woman died giving birth. New babes died, too. If anything had changed in a hundred and eighteen years, he hoped that had. It struck him suddenly that four months was not a terribly long time. Was it possible that he’d still be here? Would he get to see Melody’s child? Would he know that she’d seen her way safely through the ordeal? Or was it his destiny to go back to his own time soon and forever wonder what had happened to Melody and her child?

He felt suddenly light-headed, almost sick to his stomach. He couldn’t stay in this time. He needed to be where he belonged, in a time he understood.

He did know shit about being a sheriff. Not like grapes.

He took a step away from the bed and might have gotten away without her ever knowing he was standing there, staring like a young boy, if she hadn’t rolled over and in the process, almost made her plump breasts practically pop out of her little shirt.

“Christ Almighty,” he said.

Her eyes flew open and it reminded him of how she’d looked that first night on the beach. Then, she had stared at him, like he was something that had emerged from the sea. Now, she looked less frightened, less wary, but still surprised to see him standing over her bed.

“I didn’t know you were in here.” He was trying to look everywhere but at her breasts. But he was clearly unsuccessful; she glanced down and quickly shifted, pulling her shirt back into place.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “I had no right.”

He could see the look of uncertainty in her violet eyes and then they cleared, like she’d come to some decision. “Come here,” she said, her voice soft. She held out her hand.

He shook his head. No. He couldn’t touch her. Not when he was feeling so weak. “I’m filthy dirty,” he said, grabbing on to the only excuse he could.

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