Hidden Obsession by Joanne Rock

Author:Joanne Rock [Rock, Joanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780263855890
Google: ywkmPwAACAAJ
Amazon: 0373792603
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-05-31T23:00:00+00:00

9

SHE WOULD HAVE PREFERRED a broken leg to a broken heart, but Linnet realized she might be doomed to suffer both as she scaled the narrow log up to the second-story balcony of the dark, fortified holding.

Graham steadied her from behind whenever she lost her footing on the precarious crossing, but each brush of his hands on her hips only made her more uneasy inside, the light caresses a bittersweet reminder of all they’d shared. As she righted her feet on the plank a third time, she told herself not to think about the way Graham had withheld himself from her at the last during their unforgettable encounter in the water.

“Are you all right?” He spoke softly in her ear now, a dark shadow over her shoulder as she edged forward more carefully. His voice sent a pleasant shiver through her despite the warm night air.

“Fine.” An outright lie, but there seemed no good way to list all the reasons she was not fine when their safety might depend on their ability to remain quiet.

Because although Graham had looked around the house before he’d allowed her to approach it, there remained a small chance Kendrick and his men could be out there. Searching for her. For them. And the thought of anything happening to Graham began to seem more untenable than any injury Kendrick could possibly do to her.

“Almost there.” His words of encouragement rang hollowly in her ears as her fingers searched for grip on the stone parapet. Loose rocks crumbled away before she found a secure section and leaped onto the same low balcony where they’d entered the house for the first time.

Graham dropped down beside her with a soft thud, his grace and balance surprising for a man of his size since he wasn’t much shorter than her brothers, all of whom were acknowledged beasts by most people’s standards.

They worked silently side by side to make preparations for sleeping. They had stuffed his shirt with tall grasses on their trek back from the pond so they had something soft to make a bed.

Together.

The idea filled her with trepidation for her heart since she couldn’t afford to care for a secretive foreigner who would only leave her. Yet she couldn’t deny the leap of her pulse as she thought about sharing a blanket with him.

Turning on her heel, she sought her traveling bag with clean clothes, a comb and some mint leaves when a flame sparked within the chamber behind her.

Fire?

Graham seemed to have found a way to light an old taper that rested cockeyed against one wall and she hadn’t even heard him strike a flint. Curious.

Even more curious was his effect on her—the same one he’d had from the first time she’d seen him in her wardrobe. Her senses heightened the same way they did in a meadow before a thunderstorm. The air became charged and heavy, making her skin hum with anticipation.

“Do you need any help?” The low timbre of his voice stoked the fire inside that had been banked since the encounter in the waterfall.

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