Soldier's Redemption by Alice Sharpe

Author:Alice Sharpe [Sharpe, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Intrigue
Published: 2012-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Skylar found a gift shop in a round stone room that looked as though it had once been the dungeon. She only had the lightweight raincoat she’d fled in the night before, and even with her heavy sweater underneath, she was freezing. The castle may have been updated and restored, but it was still a drafty place with cool spots despite the roaring fires and long walkways between buildings.

It had been a long time since she’d actually bought anything retail. Usually she just window-shopped to find inspiration, but this time she went straight to a rack filled with coats, settling at last on an all-weather parka, light blue in color with a white faux-fur fluff around the hood. She hadn’t had anything like it in years, not since high school when she’d taken up skiing until she discovered the only sure way to stop—for her—was to fall down.

She bought it on a credit card and folded her own raincoat into the bag the store provided. Nice and cozy now, she walked along the snowy path to the museum, pausing at the pier to look out over the frozen lake toward Slovo, her hair protected from the falling snow.

The pier was built high above the lake with a fifteen-foot drop to the shore and a series of stairs leading down to a dock that would sport a lineup of sail and power boats come summer. The lake wasn’t frozen over yet, but it looked as if it was trying, especially close to the shoreline. The shore itself was blanketed with white and with the snow still falling and the temperature plunging, Skylar imagined it would only get more beautiful as the season progressed.

Cole was over there somewhere meeting with a potential supplier. She wished she’d been able to go with him. What a mess she was—how scattered were her thoughts? One minute she was telling him to leave her alone and the next, she was asking him for help. He must think she was nuts.

And yet there’d been moments today when their gazes locked that threw her back to his room, her in his arms, his mouth all over her, warm and moist. All the passion still hung there between them like a gossamer curtain just waiting to be torn down. He’d pulled back that night, and she was ready to talk about it now. He would be leaving Kanistan pretty soon, and who knows how autocratic her uncle would get about her seeing him once she returned to her aunt’s side. If Cole left without them coming to some understanding, she might never have the opportunity to know him better, to discover if her feelings were genuine or not, and that struck her as profoundly sad.

That reminded her that she’d asked him to call her when he was ready to meet up again, but she’d turned her phone to silent so she wouldn’t have to deal with her uncle. She looked at it now and saw that she’d missed three calls from his private number.

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