Shadows At Midnight by Elizabeth Jennings

Author:Elizabeth Jennings
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Amnesiacs, Intelligence officers, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Romantic suspense fiction, Suspense, Conspiracies
ISBN: 9780425235997
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2010-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter TEN

CLAIRE stepped out of the shower and wrapped her hair in a big white towel.

A white T-shirt had been placed on the counter next to the sink. It fell to her knees and billowed around her but it was clean and ironed. She sniffed at the material but all she could smell was detergent. She’d been hoping for the smell of Dan. His smell would be embedded in the deepest recesses of her brain to the end of time.

Oh, God. A mixture of soap and musk and man. Intoxicating. Enthralling. She’d had her nose next to his neck while climaxing and it seemed as if her entire body, every sense she had, locked on to him. The smell of him, musk and male, the taste of him, salty and spicy, the feel of him, hot and amazingly hard all over, the sound of him, breath heaving in and out of his lungs toward the end as he slammed into her, that deep moan as he sank on to her after his gazillionth climax, the sight of him, that dark intense face an inch above her own, moving as his body thrust in and out of hers . . .

It had been sex as she’d never had it before. So intense every cell felt charged with electricity. It was as if Dan had given her an infusion of life, together with the sex. She felt warm, inside and out. Her skin tingled down to her fingertips and toes. She felt wonderful, even . . . hopeful.

The future was not an endless series of dark days and darker nights. It held hope. She felt more clearheaded than she had in a year, as if some heavy boulder had been rolled away.

She had no idea what turns this relationship with Dan would take but, for now, it was simply delicious. This feeling of being wanted. When he turned that dark gaze on her, eyes glowing with desire like coals, it turned her inside out.

He saw her.

She’d been so used to being nearly invisible, sliding through other people’s lives like a ghost, wanting nothing, asking nothing, receiving nothing. It was as if she barely existed. Dan’s desire gave her weight and heft. He listened to her, too, giving her back her identity as someone whose thoughts were of value.

And they were of value. A gray heavy fog had suddenly lifted and she could see into the distance. Her mind could embrace yesterday, today and tomorrow, instead of being able to think only in an eternal now.

It felt like she was coming back into herself. Claire welcomed this gingerly, the first hint of dawn’s light after a long midnight. The feelings were incredibly good but so very new. Tentative and fragile.

“You okay?” He was there, by her side. He moved so quietly. He was such an immensely strong man, with dense, thick muscles. You’d think he’d make a noise when he moved, but instead he glided silently, like an insubstantial spirit instead of a very substantial man.

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