His Rebel Heart by Amber Leigh Williams

Author:Amber Leigh Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

ADRIAN DIDN’T KNOW how long she stood gaping at James as he shifted his feet and tried not to look awkward. But dear God, he’d said it, hadn’t he? Along with a lot of other wonderful things. And by the high color in his neck and the sudden awareness in his eyes, she knew he hadn’t meant to.

Dear God, he had loved her after all. Her inhale was shaky, as were her hands when she raked them through her hair. “What am I supposed to do with that?” she asked.

“I don’t rightly know,” he admitted after a moment’s thought. “I don’t know if I’ve ever known what to do with it...exactly. But there it is.” His eyes were as naked as she’d ever seen them. “I loved you, hard.”

It had always been so much easier to believe that she’d loved him more than he had ever loved her, or felt about her, period. It had been so much easier to believe that she had been nothing but a handy coping mechanism. “Why...why did you have to tell me?” she asked finally. “Now we both have to live with it!”

He dug his hands into his pockets. For a moment, he looked lost. “Beats the hell out of me,” he murmured.

One look at him and she knew he was as vulnerable as she had been eight years ago. “Damn it, James.” She dropped the purse she’d picked up on her way to the exit. “Goddamn it.”

He nodded shortly. “That sums it up.”

“I shouldn’t believe you. After all you’ve put me through, I should just walk out that door.”

He glanced from the exit to the purse she was no longer clutching and back to her, a light entering his eyes. “Then what are you still doing here, Adrian?”

“Complicating things,” she said, crossing the room to him. She hesitated briefly before sliding her hands up to his shoulders and lifting on her tiptoes, touching her mouth to his.

The kiss was brushing, tender. He sucked in a long breath. She felt the hands in his pockets twitch. Pulling back, she looked at the bar between his closed eyes, the muscles quaking in his jaw. Smoothing her hand over his cheek, she tipped her mouth up to his again and indulged in another sweet kiss, lingering when he made a noise in his throat.

Cupping his face in her hands, she deepened the kiss, opening her mouth to his for the first time since his return. Yet he did as promised and didn’t touch her. He held himself back even as she pulled his tongue into her mouth and suckled. His body hardened under her hands and he hissed. She smiled a bit because she saw that his effort was costing him dearly.

“I think you should touch me now,” she told him.

He didn’t open his eyes. The muscles in his face were drawn tight under his skin, his voice hoarse. “Once I start, I can’t promise I’ll be able to stop.”

“Just do it,” she demanded, “before I start thinking sensibly again.

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