Sands of Time by Susan May Warren

Author:Susan May Warren [Warren, Susan May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-11-09T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Day two trapped inside a five meter by ten meter cabin with Sarai felt like a prison sentence. Especially when everything inside Roman wanted to throttle her. Or maybe just take her in his arms and kiss her.

There he went again, acting as if they had a future.

If only she hadn’t laughed so sweetly when he’d beat her two out of three times in chess. Or helped him chop wood and carry it in.

Or thrown that snowball at him.

Roman turned away from her, where she and Anya sat at the table, kneading pizza dough. He had no illusions that the pizza, especially minus the seasonings, would taste anything remotely like the stuff she’d taught him to make years ago. But he could live with less than perfect pizza when he saw her speaking in low tones to Anya, with her hair pulled back and her eyes free of the darkness that seemed to shroud her since he walked into her life two days ago.

He’d gotten an up-close look into her incredible eyes when he’d felt an icy trickle run down his back as he’d been chopping wood. In his peripheral vision, he spotted his attacker gathering ammo for another volley, and spun and tackled her.

She shoved the snow in his face.

He’d pinned her down easily. “Stop,” he’d said, with a low growl.

She’d just laughed, breathing hard, her gaze on his.

He’d felt everything slow, then. Snow fell around them, landing on her face, her nose. It melted and ran down into her woolen cap, blending with her freckles. The wind brushed the trees, a murmuring audience to the scene in the snow. Her hair smelled clean, having been recently washed in Anya’s sink, and he caught the soft scent of wool and wood smoke against her skin. Her beautiful green eyes seemed bright as she stared at him. A blush infused her cheeks.

“Let me up, Roma,” she said softly. He barely heard her against the roar of his pulse. His gaze roamed her face, stopped on her lips. He could nearly taste them, soft and sweet against his.

Sarai. This was Sarai, pulling him out of his world, into a moment where he could breathe fully, could stop and just enjoy her smile. All he’d ever wanted—if he really thought hard about it—was a woman who trusted him. Who smiled when he walked in the door, who cheered when he succeeded and believed in him when he didn’t. Who stuck around with concern in her eyes when he showed up wounded, and loved him enough to get under his defenses and patch him up.

She bit her lower lip. It yanked him out of the moment enough for him to see fear in her eyes. Had he changed so much that he frightened her?

Or maybe it was just the thought of him in her life that scared her.

“Roma?”

It took everything in him to clench his teeth and push away from her. He rolled back in the snow, glad for the ice on his neck.

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