Unstitched by Jacquie Underdown

Author:Jacquie Underdown [Underdown, Jacquie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780857992260
Amazon: B00S493CQ8
Barnesnoble: B00S493CQ8
Goodreads: 24627073
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises, Australia Pty Ltd
Published: 2015-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Anthea

My eyes widened, eyebrows soaring upwards, as I tilted my head way back and looked up. Immense steel arches thrust high into the inky black sky. A sky spattered with stars and soaked by the dull orange glow from the city lights.

‘We’re going to climb the bridge?’

Lucas nodded and took my hand. My heart was stuttering, my veins sparking with adrenalin. This bridge was tall — as high as my twenty-two storey apartment.

He led me to a small building where we met other climbers and the tour guide. We dressed in a baggy grey onesie so we could blend with the bridge’s steel and not distract drivers below. Definitely the most unattractive outfit I’d ever worn on a date. Harnesses were fixed to our belts and we each wore a headset to communicate between ourselves and the other climbers. We formed a group at the base of the bridge’s framework — thick steel beams, round rivets and grid work — and our harnesses were hooked to a spirit line.

Lucas looked back over his shoulder at me and grinned. ‘You’re not scared, are you?’

I swallowed hard and said over the thundering of my heart, ‘Of course not.’

He laughed and turned back to the front. We began our steep ascent up countless narrow steps. The glassy breeze howled through the framework, while the lights and sounds of traffic bustling across the bridge roared up to meet me. But the higher we climbed the more the noises muted until the full-circle view rushed in to meet me: the city high-rises soaring towards the sky, orange and yellow light flittering from their square glass windows; darkened sheer cliffs; and sprawling mansions dotting the banks of the snaking river metres below.

At the first viewing deck, I stood next to Lucas and he took my hand in his, forcing a pleasurable pulse through my body. ‘How you doing?’

‘Wonderfully.’

He squeezed my hand tighter and we peered over the railing. I breathed in the salty breeze that stroked my hair and face, slid cold down my throat. ‘The city looks so beautiful from up here, almost magical,’ I said.

He didn’t answer. I turned to face him. He was already looking at me. I smiled, but my lips soon straightened and parted as he leant down, his face nearing mine. He closed his eyes and I could feel his warm breath on my face and taste his delicious scent on my tongue. My eyelids fluttered closed and his lips were against mine. I sighed softly, desperate, as he edged my mouth open and slid his tongue inside. My body swelled, my head was dizzy.

Lucas fisted the hair at my nape, his other hand trailing down my back, to my waist, creating a path of warmth that rippled and swelled in every vessel, leached into my blood. He took my face between his hands and I sank deeper into his kiss, deeper against him. What climbers? What view? What height? None of it existed. This kiss, Lucas, this moment, was all that mattered.

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