Water Bound by Feehan Christine

Author:Feehan, Christine [Feehan, Christine]
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Jove
Published: 2010-07-27T04:00:00+00:00

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RIKKI swung one foot back and forth as she swayed gently in the swing, staring out into the gathering darkness. She had no idea what to do with Lev. She’d made up her mind he could stay, but she didn’t know how to share her life. She needed a certain environment to live in peace, and yet if she was allowing Lev into her world, it wasn’t fair to expect him to conform to her needs. She sighed. She was definitely intrigued by the man, and she felt for him. He was lost and trying to find his way, just as she had been. She couldn’t do less for him than Blythe and the others had done for her.

She sighed again. Maybe she’d started out helping him because she felt he needed it, but now she wasn’t as certain of her own motivation. She was becoming fascinated by him, almost obsessed—and she could really fixate on something if she was interested in a subject. So far, the subject had never been another human being, but her weird connection to Lev seemed to be growing. She thought about him way too much.

“That’s your third sigh.”

A million butterflies took flight in the pit of her stomach. She brought up her hand and shook her fingers, blowing on them as if putting out a fire. Realizing what she’d done, she dropped her hand quickly. It had taken years of concentrated effort to stop that childhood pattern of shaking her hands and blowing on her fingers repeatedly. The act was mesmerizing and allowed her mind to focus on the repetitious pattern rather than deal with what was new and uncomfortable. She glanced at Lev’s face. Yeah. He’d noticed.

“I wasn’t counting,” she replied.

“You worry too much.” He held out the plate with the sandwich. “I brought you something to eat.”

Her stomach lurched. Her sandwich was on one of the plates her sisters had given her. This was the second time he’d used them and she couldn’t do it again. She folded her hands in her lap. “I don’t ever use those plates.”

“Why?”

There was curiosity in his voice, but not anything else she could detect. She frowned, trying to think of what to tell him. She didn’t use the dishes because she loved them and she was afraid something might happen to them. It sounded stupid when she thought about admitting the reason aloud. Her sisters had given her the dishes to use and yet, for four years, she’d just looked at them. Keeping the dishes in mint condition seemed very logical until she tried to say it out loud. Even Blythe had objected to her not using the dishes.

She looked up at Lev’s face. There was no expression on his face, just a gentle understanding in his eyes. That look set off another round of flying butterflies. She wanted to reach out and trace every line on his face. “I know it sounds silly, even to me it does, but no one ever gave me anything, not after my parents died, and I didn’t want to risk chipping or breaking a single dish.

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