The Look of Love by Kelly Julia

Author:Kelly, Julia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2017-10-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

GAVIN STARED DOWN at the floor of the abbey’s great hall, unable to help the slow grin that crossed his face.

When he’d proposed a night together, he’d known taking Ina to Daldour would be romantic. Rowing across the firth, slipping away to an abandoned ruin, sharing a picnic and wine—it all seemed perfect. He’d hoped that, if she was willing, he might even be able to steal one of the kisses he’d been holding himself back from taking, or even more. He just hadn’t expected it all to be quite like this.

Her appetite thrilled him even as it knocked him off of his feet. He’d loved her from afar for too long, idolizing her. For years, she’d been the passionate artist and untouchable friend. Tonight she’d been real and raw and human. Tonight he’d loved her as a man loves the woman who sees him at his very best and his very worst.

She stirred against him, stretching her beautiful body up over his and sliding her arms around his neck.

She smiled at him through the happy haze of sleep. “I think I drifted off.”

“You did,” he said.

He gently tugged at one of her hands and brought it up to press a kiss to her inside wrist. He burned for her, but he was far from ready to show her the intensity of his feelings for her. For now, they’d both have to be satisfied with sex punctuated with sweet gestures and reassurances and hope that some subconscious part of her would one day understand them.

She looked around the room, her eyes falling on the dying fire. “I could stir the embers.”

Delicately, he placed one finger to her jaw and turned her chin to him. “Don’t worry about the fire.”

“But you must be cold,” she protested.

Doubt flooded her expression. She was thinking far too much, her mind jumping forward to one hundred different scenarios as she tried to guess how he would act.

“What I’d like most in the world is for you to stay here with me, just like this,” he said.

That wasn’t true. What he truly wanted was for Ina to confess she’d loved him for years. Then they could put the whole awkward, damaging last month behind them. But he couldn’t say any of that. Yet.

“Will you do that for me?” he asked quietly. “Stay just a little while longer like this?”

He watched her toy with the hair on his chest before spreading all five fingers out as though reassuring herself that this was all real.

“If that’s what you want,” she said.

He swallowed and took the first little step into his future with her. “I’d rather it be what you want as well.”

She caught his eyes and nodded.

“Perhaps we should use this,” he said, pulling free her cloak from the bundle of clothing on the floor. With one arm, he tried to cast it out over them, succeeding only in half covering her right shoulder and his left toes.

A little laugh bubbled up on Ina’s lips. “Can I

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