Promise Me the Stars by Norah Wilson

Author:Norah Wilson [Wilson, Norah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Something Shiny Press
Published: 2016-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

SCOTT STOPPED the vehicle and killed the lights. “We’re here.”

He watched as April leaned forward to peer out the window. “All I see is…darkness. What is that ahead? Trees?”

“It’s Harkness Mountain.”

Her jaw dropped. “Are you freaking kidding me? We’re going to climb a mountain in the dark? All I remember suggesting was a walk!”

He laughed. “We won’t be climbing the mountain. I wouldn’t even try that in the dark, let alone subject you to it.”

“Then what are we doing here? Unless…” Now that his eyes had begun adjusting to the darkness, he saw her turn toward him. “Scott Standish, did you bring me here to park?”

He grinned. “Do you want to?”

“I don’t know.” From the tilt of her head, he knew she was surveying the gear shift and the console between the seats and wondering how it could possibly work. Then she surveyed her surroundings outside, making sure they were truly alone. “I’ve never parked with a…gentleman before.”

“Gentleman, huh?” He leaned across the console. Taking her face in his hand, he guided her chin up so he could kiss those perfect, full lips. When she leaned into the kiss, he dropped his hand to her chest, unzipping the bomber jacket to cup her breast beneath the soft material of her T-shirt and light bra. His fingers tightened on that luscious mound, and she shuddered, giving herself up to his touch with a sweet sigh. The sound sent a bolt of arousal straight to his groin. Before he could lose his head, he pulled back. He was not going to make love to her in Uncle Arden’s ratty old Jeep. “How was that for gentlemanly?”

“Maybe I should have said I’ve never parked with a scoundrel before.” She smoothed a hand over her hair. “Actually, I’ve never been parking with anyone—gentleman, scoundrel, or anything in between.”

“Much as I’d love to correct that deficiency, I think we’d better wait until I have Titus’s truck. It’s a lot roomier.”

If he turned the dome light on now, he was pretty sure he’d see her blushing.

“So what are we here for?”

“There’s a place I’d like to show you.” His eyes dropped to her open jacket in the moonlight. “Better zip up. It’s cold out there.”

By the time he rounded the vehicle, she’d already jumped out. While she zipped her leather jacket up as far as it would go and pulled her mittens back on, he pulled out a crushed cigarette pack, lit one, and took a long drag. Instantly, he felt the soothing effects of the nicotine roll over him.

“Why do you do that?” she asked. “I know you don’t smoke enough to have a real addiction going on.”

He shrugged. “I just enjoy it once in a while. But there’s no danger I’m going to take it up in earnest. Especially not with Ember around. She gives me hell if she catches so much as a whiff of stale cigarette smoke on me.”

“So the Standish women look after their men too.”

He took another haul off the cigarette.

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