Home Fires by Barbara Delinsky

Author:Barbara Delinsky
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

6

The fresh air was what she needed. Mark’s protective arm about her shoulder was not. She found herself nestling far too snugly against him, selfishly absorbing his comfort, all the while feeling guilty about how little she could offer in return.

She let her arm curve beneath his jacket and around his lean waist. They walked slowly, silently and in perfect step. Occasionally their eyes met. It was at one of those times that Deanna realized she was well on her way to falling in love with Mark, if she hadn’t done so already. He was so special, had been from the first. She should have been able to see it coming—not that there was anything she could have done to stop it. It was beautiful and inevitable and terribly, terribly hopeless.

“Okay now?” he murmured into the soft auburn sheen of her hair.

“Uh-huh,” she lied, wanting to pretend that her hopelessness didn’t exist

“Want to talk about it?”

She shook her head. “No. Not tonight It’s too lovely.”

A tremor passed the length of Mark’s body and she wondered for a minute if it was her own. When his arm tightened reflexively around her, she sighed her pleasure. If only she could retreat into fantasy again. If only she could disregard every reality but Mark, his magnificent body and her burgeoning desire for him.

Reading her thoughts, Mark hurried her around a corner into a small alleyway and took her into his arms before she could begin to question the wisdom of the move. His lips came down on hers with the force of his own pent-up need, igniting a response that had been similarly building in her all evening. Nothing could dampen the hunger exploding between them as their arms wound convulsively around one another and their lips consumed each other greedily.

“Deanna … Deanna … I need you so much … .” he rasped, dragging his mouth from hers to devour the faintly scented skin of her neck. His hands seemed everywhere, trailing white-hot fire along her arms and around her waist, covering her ribs and rising to her breasts as she strained in torment against him.

She heard his love words only in a daze, for she was engrossed in the touching as well. This was a momentary bonanza—this dark, dark alleyway. For these few reckless moments she was free again. Her fingers pressed through the fabric of his suit to adore the vibrant sinews that stretched virilely beneath. She reached to his shoulders and arched catlike against him, then let her hands fall the length of his arms to his hips and thighs. As his kiss deepened into scorching tongue play, she stroked the steel of those thighs, moving slowly inward until he sucked in a breath of frustration.

“Oh, honey … I could take you here and now … .”

“I know,” she whispered, wanting it as well. “I know, Mark … .” Her body ached with the hollowness he’d created, the hollowness only he could fill. This time it was her mouth that sought an urgent kiss, her lips that underscored the internal cry.

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