Linna by Jackie Ivie

Author:Jackie Ivie [Ivie, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Morning came too soon, she decided, as sunlight touched on her exposed foot. With morning, came too much of everything else. Linna groaned as time and place returned. She barely kept from awakening the giant at her side. She rolled from the safe, secure haven he’d created for her within the shelter of his frame and immediately felt the chill being away from him caused.

Has the fever returned? She dropped to kiss his forehead. Her flush, should he awaken was followed by her amazement that she’d remembered that small bit of nursing knowledge from somewhere. Someone, at some time, had told her the best way to gauge a temperature was to touch your lips to it.

It must be true, for Cord’s brow was the same temperature as her lips. His eyes were just as gray-green as always, too. Linna’s gaze skittered away as he caught her, teetering on her hands and knees, with her lips bare inches from him.

“Good morn to you, too,” he whispered, before lifting his head, preparatory to touching his lips to hers.

Linna barely avoided the kiss and swayed back on her haunches. “I was testing your fever,” she told the floor.

“Very good methods you have, too. You have my heartfelt gratitude.”

Linna dared another glance but couldn’t hold it. He was too all-knowing smug, too gloriously muscled, and altogether too handsome, to bandy light words. Her throat felt tight, her heart heavy, and her eyes filled with tears despite everything she tried. She couldn’t face him. Not yet. Not until she had her emotions under control. She should have known she was no match for the gorgeous man who’d shoved his way into her life and completely upended it. She should have known and run in the other direction.

She didn’t want to feel anything for him - especially this soft emotion that she desperately hoped wasn’t love. It just couldn’t be. Linna Daniels didn’t know the meaning of the word! She’d been accused of that oft enough. It should be true. What a fool she’d been. She was very afraid that not only did she know the meaning, she’d caught a full-fledged case of it. All of which was too raw, too strange, and too fragile to address. Linna didn’t dare look at him.

“How...do you feel?” she mumbled.

He stretched beneath the quilt, drawing her glance, before he put both hands behind his head and lay back to look at the ceiling. “Why?” he asked.

“What do you mean, why?” she put her best sarcasm into the question and wasn’t surprised when he slid his gaze to her. She quickly moved to look at the cabin wall behind him.

“Why do you care?”

Why do I care? Wouldn’t he like to know! She shrugged very carefully. “You’ve been ill and I’ve been nursing you. That’s why.”

“That what you call it?” he paused after the low-tone words before continuing. “Nursing?”

Linna blushed, then felt it recede. She was probably as pale as she felt. The opposite side of the cabin blurred for a moment.

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