A Chance On Love by Louise Allen

Author:Louise Allen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: 0
Published: 2018-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

The baby was so tiny. Far too small for the parade of names his proud papa had pronounced. Joanna met the unfocused blue gaze and smiled. ‘Yes, Georgie, it is a big confusing world out here. You go back to your nurse now.’

She handed him to his ayah and watched as Cousin George shepherded them back upstairs to where his exhausted wife was waiting. Then she turned back to the open doors that led out onto the veranda.

‘You may come in now.’ She had heard the soft crunch of gravel, seen the long shadow fall across the boards ten minutes ago.

Alex stepped over the threshold, hat in hand, and stood studying her gravely. ‘They are both well?’

‘So everyone says. You are come to tell me not to become too attached to little Georgie, are you not?’

‘I came because the Athertons are my friends. I lingered because I was watching you hold the child. I am here now because I have been thinking about what you said at the cemetery. You are right. if we do not have the courage to hope, to risk, what future is there?’

‘Is there a future for us?’ Strange how hard it was to speak, as though all the air had been knocked from her lungs.

Alex smiled and sent his hat spinning away into the corner of the room. ‘Come here.’ He held out his hands. ‘Let us find out.’

‘I thought kissing was considered immoral in India.’ She closed her eyes and let her other senses guide her. His pulse was hard under her fingers. She could smell sandalwood and fresh linen and the now-familiar scent of the soap he used.

‘In public.’ His breath grazed her face as she tipped her head back and opened her eyes and saw the intensity and the emotion in his. ‘This is just us, Joanna. Alone.’

I have come home, she thought as his lips found hers, gentle, questioning and, suddenly, certain. And so has he.

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