Together by Linda L. Miller

Author:Linda L. Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The light of the bedroom fire flickered over Gavin’s rain-damp clothes, glimmered on the polished leather of his riding boots, lent a crimson halo to his ebony hair. Katherine was stricken by the joyous love she felt for this husband she’d won by accident; it was as though some ancient wrong had been finally righted, after a long and difficult struggle.

Every tiny fiber in her body seemed to resonate, like the strings of some mellow old instrument that had been lifted from a musty trunk, tuned, and finally strummed with cherishing fingers.

Gavin set his strong hands on the arms of the chair and thrust himself wearily to his feet. When he turned to face Katherine, he took on an aura made up of firelight and the violent, golden lightning that flashed beyond the terrace doors.

Katherine could not read the expression on his face for the shadows that cloaked him, but she felt the barely leashed power in his body, sensed the distant tumult of the battle going on within his spirit. The conflict, she knew, was between the mightiest of human emotions, love and its twin, hatred.

For the first time since she’d landed in this place, she had hope of finding her way into Gavin’s heart and making a lasting place for herself there.

Fearful that anything she said might tilt the delicate balance the wrong way, she kept her silence. She lifted her chin and stared straight at his face to show him she wouldn’t be intimidated. For all that, the separate impacts of his physical presence, the warriorlike strength of his spirit, the laser-powered reach of his mind, practically overwhelmed her.

He took a step toward her, then another, reluctantly, as though resisting some elemental force every inch of the way.

His hand came to rest on her shoulder, and she turned and lightly brushed his knuckles with her lips.

“God help me,” he whispered in the tone of one who expects no aid from any quarter, including heaven. He tilted his head back and closed his eyes, and Katherine watched the play of muscles in his magnificent neck for a long moment, then softly kissed the hollow of his throat.

She felt a shudder go through him, knew a sensation of homecoming that went far beyond the physical when he wrenched her against him. Her hair spilled down her back as he plunged splayed fingers beneath the little knot she’d pinned so carefully into place.

He spread his free hand over the small of her back, pressing her curvy softness against an opposing hardness. When he assailed her with his demanding, masterful kiss, it seemed to Katherine that the elegant room had suddenly turned to a vacuum, like outer space. Only her connection with Gavin allowed her to breathe; when he withdrew, her last contact with the life force would be broken. She would shrivel to a cinder and then disappear entirely.

Just when Katherine thought she couldn’t accommodate another sensation, another dizzying emotion, without going into overload, Gavin thrust his tongue past her lips.

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