Love Songs by Barbara Delinsky

Author:Barbara Delinsky [Delinsky, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, contemporary
ISBN: 9781250025326
Google: 7XSlVgBPaM0C
Amazon: 125002532X
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013-01-28T13:00:00+00:00

It was not the sauna that took first priority upon her arrival at his apartment. Rather, it was the pair of arms that folded her to him, the voice that whispered words of love in her ear, the tall, dark man who held her away from him to drink in her presence as she devoured his.

“Talk to me, Alanna,” he ordered softly, leading her to the sofa and sitting beside her. “Before anything happens I need you to tell me what’s changed in that mind of yours to bring you here.”

But Alanna was too drugged with love to want to talk. Reaching for him, she locked her arms about him, seeking his heartbeat, savoring it until he set her back purposefully. “Can’t we talk later, Alex?” she whispered, craning to kiss the rugged line of his jaw.

That old, familiar eyebrow arched. “I dare you to talk now, love. Let’s see what kind of self-control you really have!”

“Alex! That’s unfair,” she chided in soft frustration. Every nerve end craved his touch, every sense cried for his possession. But at the moment Alex’s need for the words he’d waited so long to hear was far greater. The vulnerability in his expression told her that. He had been free and open with his feelings from the start; it was only fair that, now that she finally understood her own more clearly, she share them.

“I love you,” she whispered, though she dropped her arms in acquiescence.

“What else is new?” There was a barbed resignation in his tone.

For a moment she pondered it. “I deserved that. I have been … stubborn, haven’t I?”

“Uh-huh.” The smiled that toyed with the corners of his lips was genuine. Glorying in it, she found herself spurred on.

“I’m ready, Alex, ready to make that commitment.”

“Why?”

“Because I love you.”

When he shook his dark head she was taken aback. “Not good enough,” he announced firmly. “You’ve loved me for some time now. What makes you suddenly want marriage?”

As she looked into his eyes she saw those silver sparkles, held in abeyance, waiting to burst forth. On impulse, and quite inappropriately, she grinned. “You know, when I was a little girl I had a game that worked with wires and batteries. It was a quiz game, question-and-answer type thing. If you made the right connection the red light went on.” Mischief sparkled in her own eyes as slowly, slowly she felt the chill that had occupied her body since the morning Alex had left begin to dissipate.

“What on earth does that have to do with anything?” the cause of the thaw growled deeply.

“It means that your eyes will be my reward when I give the correct answer. Your silver sparkles … they’re waiting.…”

“I’m waiting,” he reminded her in warning.

At that instant, abruptly sobering, Alanna knew that it was time to end the waiting. For them both. Forever. “These four weeks have been an experience I needed, Alex. They’ve opened my eyes in many ways.” When she reached for his hand he allowed her to take it, yet he sat silent, waiting.

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