Bad Lover by Sarah Michelle Lynch

Author:Sarah Michelle Lynch [Lynch, Sarah Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

The next day, after deliriously enjoying the most decadent breakfast in the privacy of their own room, they left the hotel in search of the nearest Metro and ended up wandering around Montmartre. The funicular up had been abhorrently hot and sweaty and she had no qualms about spending the rest of the day roaming the cobbled streets up here and admiring the limestone buildings, until it got cooler and they could go back down the hill towards the hotel.

They stood by the railing outside the Sacrè Coeur and were looking out over the whole of Paris from their vantage point. The sky was pure blue but the hazy smog of pollution made it just a little difficult to spot the Eiffel Tower with any clarity.

“Why do you like it here?” he asked, standing beside her, looking impossibly beautiful in cropped stonewash jeans, tan leather loafers and a baggy linen shirt, crisp white and offsetting his dark colouring to perfection. His brown eyes danced as he waited for her response, his eyes straying only very briefly to her cleavage, proudly displayed in a tight cropped top, her navy culottes giving her life in this heat with a little air between her legs. She was glad she packed her sandals because anything else would’ve given her major blisters.

She looked into the distance as she spoke. “I think it’s the whole romance of it sitting so high up in the hills, but also how it’s been in so many films, and I don’t know… if I lived in Paris, I’d come up here at night and just look out across the city, maybe say a prayer indoors or something… it feels peaceful. It’s strange when so much sin exists just at the foot of the hill it’s sitting on, like this was put here as a gentle reminder… or a little… maybe… I don’t know… counterbalance.”

He placed a finger under her chin and turned her face towards him, kissing her softly, like a gentleman. It took her breath away and for a few moments, she felt butterflies in her stomach and smiled inside, absorbed by his tender touch and the smell and presence of him.

“You’re so beautiful,” he said, “inside and out.”

Something about the look in his eyes caught her up and she turned her body towards his, wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. They were locked passionately for quite some time before a couple of people cleared their throats, perhaps a remember to be reverent – or maybe they were just in the way of a great view.

They pulled away from one another grinning, until his demeanour changed and it looked like he was going to tell her something terrible.

Instead, she realised it was nerves as he dug his fingers deep into his jeans pocket and pulled out a ring.

A diamond – an absolute rock – a sparkling band.

Her heart thudded in her chest when he dropped to one knee.

“Anabel, I can think of no better place to propose to you, than your favourite place, and there’s no better woman out there than you.

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