Bluegrass King: Kentucky by Janet Dailey

Author:Janet Dailey [Dailey, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780263091304
Google: pFw_EDkiLvQC
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 1976-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

'I THINK it's past your bedtime,' Barrett spoke from somewhere near her ear.

Her lashes opened slowly, weighted by the drugged half-sleep that possessed her. She gave a little sigh of contentment as she drew the arm around her waist into a tighter hold.

'I was only resting my eyes,' she claimed in defense, but her voice was soft and whispery.

His quiet chuckle was muffled by the closeness of his mouth to her hair and the warmth of his breath was like the caress of a butterfly. Beneath her head she could hear the reassuring steady beat of his heart.

'You've been doing such a good job of resting your eyes that you haven't heard a word I've said for the last fifteen minutes.' His feet were off the coffee table and back on the floor as he began to straighten. 'It's time I let you get to bed.'

'Don't go,' Dani protested drowsily, not wanting to lose the comfortable pillow beneath her head, nor the warm blanket of his arms.

But her husky plea didn't halt his movements. 'You're out on your feet, girl,' Barrett said firmly.

She felt an arm slide under her knees and in the next instant she was being carried in his arms like a child. There was no desire to protest this time as she twined her arms about his neck. The dreamlike state of half-sleep sensed the rightness of his action. Through half-closed lashes, she peered at the powerful line of his jaw and chin and the grooves beside his mouth that lessened the fierceness. As her eyes swung lazily to the thick lashes accenting the brilliant green depths of his, she found him gazing down at her, something very caressive in the look.

'I was eight years old the last time my father carried me to bed,' she murmured in a sleep-thickened voice.

He made no comment to that remark as he entered the darkened room, but Dani had expected none. Tugging back the covers of the bed, Barrett laid her gently on the exposed sheet. Her hands remained locked around his neck, holding him above her.

'Good night, Dani,' he said again in that firm voice that still sounded gentle.

'I'm still not that tired,' she said with one final protest.

In the light streaming in from the bedroom door, she saw the quirk of his mouth into a faintly amused grin. 'Of course not,' Barrett agreed mockingly. When he began to lower his head towards her, Dani tilted her chin, anticipating his kiss.

At the light touch of his mouth, a flooding warmth spread through her with the lethargic heat of an open fireplace. Her lips moved in response to his kiss, a primitive instinct telling her what to do. Abstractedly her hands felt the tightening of the muscles in Barrett's neck and the pressure of his hands at her side as he started to draw away. Under the gentle insistence of her lips, his kiss hardened into something more than a simple caress. Dani felt the stamp of possession in

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