If There Be Dragons by Kay Hooper

Author:Kay Hooper [Hooper, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

SIX

CODY GREW MORE bemused during the following few days. Until then, he’d felt that he possessed a fairly accurate perspective regarding Brooke. He had identified her dragons and fought them the best way he knew how, first with his patience and then in forcing Brooke to face her feelings toward her mother. He didn’t doubt that his methods had been successful, because Brooke seemed to have become a different woman overnight.

That was what baffled him.

He’d first been knocked off balance by the fact that she accepted his touch just as casually as ever—but with a new amusement that Cody could sense but not really pinpoint. Her green eyes always invited him to share her amusement, and a puzzled Cody couldn’t see the joke. Still, if it had been only that, he could have coped.

It was more than that.

She called him Prince. She teased him in a manner which, Cody felt strongly, was more reminiscent of a lover than a pal—the way she’d teased him until then. She was casually offhand about touching him. There was an expression in her eyes from time to time that touched something primitive deep inside Cody, the expression of a woman becoming aware of her own womanhood. But at the same time she seemed to have discovered the childlike enthusiasm and recklessness that her mother’s exploitation had banished.

And it was that childlike, infectious cheerfulness that kept Cody more off-balance than anything else. It made him hesitant, even though his instincts told him that it was time their relationship be clearly defined; either it would grow or it would remain the same. And he had only to feel the casual touch of her hand to know that it couldn’t remain the same; not for him.

Cody damned his own uncertainty even while encouraging Brooke’s present mood—whatever it was. If she laughed, he egged her on. If she became irritated, he played that up as well. It seemed a promising sign to him that her emotions were closer to the surface now.

But he lay awake in his lonely bed on more than one night brooding over the number of women he’d met since she’d first knocked him into the snow. The unwelcoming, stiffly controlled woman. The terrified woman. The bitter woman. The woman who’d gradually relaxed in his company. The woman lost in painful memories. The woman who’d cried in his arms. The woman who’d laughed almost hysterically after a dream—nightmare?—and looked at a handful of feathers as if they were priceless diamonds.

And now the woman who was none of those others and yet all of them, the woman who laughed and teased and gazed at him with the most beautiful green eyes he’d ever seen, and a smile that could send a man winging to heaven—or plummeting straight to hell….

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