The Last Viking by Sandra Hill

Author:Sandra Hill [Hill, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-10T00:59:21.517287+00:00

Sandra Hill

He jerked back his hand, as if just realizing what he'd been doing.

"Practicing my alphabet," he said.

Liar.

"Mayhap you would like me to practice my letters on your skin. Prune skin, did you call it when I walked in?"

She closed her eyes as a tingling awareness passed over her, almost as if he were actually tracing the words on her flesh... words she yearned for and at the same time resisted with her whole being.

"Merry-Death," he said gently, a note of desperation in his voice, "do you tingle when I touch you?"

Her eyes shot open. Could he read her mind now, too?

"Not when I touch you intimately, but just in passing. Like that fleeting kiss I gave you earlier? Did you tingle then?"

He gazed at her with such abject bleakness as he asked the question.

She frowned with confusion. "What's wrong, Rolf? Why are you asking me these questions?"

He shrugged. " 'Tis something your sister suggested to me."

Meredith bristled. "Was that before or after she at tempted to jump your bones?"

The grimness of his expression lightened and he chucked her playfully under the chin. And she did tingle, dam it.

"After."

"Well, then, what did my sister suggest that has turned you so grim?"

He was back to tracing letters in the bubbles with seemingly idle concentration, but she could tell that he was deeply troubled by something... something Jillie had suggested to him. What could it be?

Meredith had no deep, dark secrets.

He lifted his head and held her eyes. "She said... she said that I am in love with you."

That was the last thing Meredith had expected. "I... I... " she sputtered.

What she wanted to say was, "Are you?" but she didn't have the nerve.

For some reason, his answer was far too important to her.

Tears welled in her eyes, and she turned her face toward the wall. Her vulnerability was crushing her.

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