Surrender (Balm in Gilead Book 2) by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams [Adams, Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-22T18:00:00+00:00

Seven

Vivian went to bed that night thinking about Jeff, and she woke up thinking about him still.

She had no idea what had happened, but the past four days had flipped some kind of switch in her mind, and now her whole being seemed to be focused on him—what he was thinking, what he was doing, what he was feeling about her, how he looked as he sipped his coffee over breakfast and occasionally slanted looks over her.

He was cute. Adorable. She’d always thought so. But now he was more than that. The chiseled line of his jaw, the strong curve of his shoulders under his golf shirt, the kink at the front of his thick hair he could never quite tame, the course hair on his forearms. Every detail she noticed. Every detail made him more attractive.

Every detail made her shiver in excitement.

It was honestly rather unnerving, after knowing Jeff for so long.

Even her memories of the serious, slightly geeky college guy had transformed, and she kept playing over the first few times she’d met him, wondering if there were any signs even back then that she’d one day feel for him this way.

She had to struggle to maintain her normal, confident demeanor over breakfast since she felt ridiculously like giggling and swooning over Jeff. But she’d worked hard to become the person she was, to have people look at her and see success and authority, and she wasn’t going to throw all that away by acting like a high school girl over a cute guy.

She liked what was happening with Jeff. After their conversation in the primitives shop yesterday and then in her room afterward, she felt closer to him than ever, closer to him than she’d ever felt to another living person. She wanted it to continue, but she didn’t want the entire world to know.

She wasn’t even sure why.

It just made her feel… vulnerable. Like making it public would increase the odds of her getting hurt by this. So she wanted to keep it just between them.

Her social life wasn’t the rest of the staff’s business anyway.

“Oh, Viv,” Rachel said just then, her green eyes sparkling behind her wire-framed glasses. “I’ve decided on the perfect guy for you.”

Vivian stared, momentarily bewildered because it was like Rachel had literally read her mind.

The rest of the table grew silent in interest, and Vivian could feel Jeff’s gaze moving from Rachel to Vivian. He was listening. She couldn’t help but wonder what he was thinking.

Pleased that her cheeks weren’t flushing too much from the wave of self-consciousness, Vivian manage to smile lightly. “Oh yeah? Who’s that?”

With a mischievous smile lurking at the corners of her mouth, Rachel nodded across the large dining room.

Vivian turned automatically, and her eyes widened when she saw Zeke standing in the far corner, talking to Cecily. Today he wore a camouflage T-shirt and a pair of bright blue shorts—with orange deck sandals. His dark hair was standing on end, and his beard had clearly not been trimmed in weeks.

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