Lovers' Reunion (Silhouette Treasury 90s) by Anne Marie Winston

Author:Anne Marie Winston [Winston, Anne Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Girl Next Door, Abandoned, Shared Passion, Lifetime Love, Lover's Reunion, Action & Adventure, Circumstances Changed, Reconcile Changes, Trust Issues, Resolve Past Issues
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Desire 90s
Published: 2011-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

He called her at work the next day and asked if she would have dinner with him, then look at his apartment. She nearly invited him to come over and eat at her condo, but common sense prevailed. Sparks flew too wildly when they were alone together, they were much too apt to start a fire that couldn’t be quelled.

She was ready when he amved, and they went directly to a small Chinese restaurant that had been around for years. In fact, they’d eaten here together before, she was sure. When Marco escorted her in, the sense of déjà vu was even stronger, and she turned to him.

“We came here before, didn’t we?”

He was grinning as they were led to their table. “Yeah. I wanted to see if you remembered.”

“The food’s fantastic. I remember that.”

And it was. He ordered soup and they spoke of little things until their main course arrived. When the waiter had left them, he reached across the table and took her hand, holding up the glass of rice wine in a toast. “To us,” he said.

Sophie hesitated a moment before gently clinking her glass against his. “To us,” she repeated, and they drank. But when she had set the glass down and picked up a fork—no way was she going to humiliate herself with chopsticks, she had informed him—he could see her thoughts turning like a carousel of horses moving incessantly up, down and around, time after time after time.

“What’s on your mind?” he asked.

She paused in the act of lifting a bite to her lips, then continued, chewing slowly and swallowing the crisp vegetable before she answered him. “A week ago, there was no ‘us.’ Now, I feel as if you have a road map of this relationship all plotted and I’m just a passenger along for the ride.”

“There was always an ‘sus,’”he corrected. “We just didn’t have time to plan the trip until now.”

She frowned. “And you’ve mapped out the whole route already, I presume.”

“I’m not sure what that means.” He eyed her warily. “Is it a crime to want to be with you?” He spread his hands. “That’s all I want, Sophie. Time for us to get to know each other again.”

She thought about it while she finished another bite. “Okay. Let’s get to know each other. Who goes first?”

“Goes first?”

“Asking the questions,” she said. “That’s a normal way for two people to get to know each other.”

“Seems to me we already know each other pretty well,” he protested.

“Then why,” she asked, “do we need time to get to know each other?”

“It was just a figure of speech,” he said. “I didn’t mean to open up a can of worms here. Look, since you don’t like the way I’ve been doing things, why don’t you make the moves for a while?”

“What if I don’t make any?”

He grinned, and her heart skipped a beat at the primitive, piratical expression. “That’s the only move that’s not allowed.”

She gave up. There was no getting around Marco once he’d made up his mind about something.

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