Stonewing Guardian by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

Thea

The next few days passed in a blur of research and making love and eating expensive cheeses and taking baths in her big claw-foot bathtub—not always by herself. Thea still couldn't quite figure out how she had ended up here. She was living with a hot billionaire gargoyle and making love to him. Apparently.

Was she in love with him, though?

She could be, she thought. She was definitely headed there, if she wasn't careful.

But Thea was not a person who fell fast. Sensible Thea, with her sturdy boots. Mace had come as close to sweeping her off her feet as anyone had in her lifetime. But they were both mature adults with their own lives. He made her heart beat faster than anyone ever had. But would she rearrange her entire life for him? The jury was still out on that.

The way Mace looked at her made her heart clutch in her chest. But sometimes she saw him examining her face as if he was looking for something there, something he couldn't quite find.

They kept separate bedrooms, but they made love in her room, in the library, and anywhere else they happened to be when the urge overcame them and there was a convenient lock on the door. It was like being college-age and insatiable. She couldn't seem to get enough of him.

Meanwhile, she and Mace pored over maps, and she used Mace's rickety Internet and her own university credentials and contacts to pull together as much information as she could on what was known of Viking exploration in the New World—from reputable digs to exploratory archaeology that went nowhere, from local legends to treasure hunters' rumors.

Mace took a shopping list and stonewalked to St. John's, coming back with the clothes, toiletries, and underwear she had asked for. Opening the last, she discovered that he had indeed bought the requested bras in her size—but one of them was a brilliant jewel red, with matching red panties.

She made sure to wear them.

He seemed to approve.

She requested a leave of absence from the university, explaining that there had been a family emergency. They were very accommodating, making her feel guilty about not knowing how long it was going to take her to come back ... or if she was coming back. It was a deferral of a decision, nothing more than that, and she knew it.

But she really liked being at Stonegarden. She liked the big, rambling old house with its many wings and gardens, the stark beauty of the surrounding hills, and the beautiful little fishing town like the crown jewel of the bay.

She eventually met Jess's husband Reive, tall and dark and strikingly good-looking, but standoffish. He rarely smiled, and Thea got the impression that he didn't like her much, in contrast to Jess's warm friendliness.

"It's not you," Jess explained, as Thea helped her box up books to take down to the village. "He grew up very isolated, even more so than this. He takes a while to warm up to new people.

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