Diamonds & Deceit (At Somerton) by Leila Rasheed

Author:Leila Rasheed [Rasheed, Leila]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781423171188
Google: XJVfngEACAAJ
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Published: 2014-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

Cornwall

Rose woke to perfect peace. The sea’s gentle sighs and the cries of the seagulls mingled with the salty breeze that blew in through the open window. She realized she was no longer at the piano, but lying on the sofa, covered in a blanket. And wrapped in Alexander Ross’s arms.

Her eyes fluttered open, and she remembered the night before in a rush of fierce joy. They had talked and laughed late into the night. He had told her about Paris, until she could almost see the brash, bold lights and smell the cigar smoke mingled with the fumes of oil paint and turpentine.

“I’ll take you there,” he had told her. “We’ll walk along the Seine, I’ll show you the Eiffel Tower. It’s monstrous but beautiful, just as the future should be.”

She allowed herself to snuggle deeper into his arms, feeling warmer and safer than she ever had in her life. She noticed a sketchbook under his arm, one corner jutting out. Moving softly so as not to wake him, she tried to see what he had been drawing. She managed to extricate the sketchbook and looked at the drawing. The figure was a blur of movement, of light, somehow, though the light was caught in dark lines of charcoal.

She looked up to find him smiling at her, his eyes open. “I’m sorry—I was prying,” she said, but couldn’t help smiling back at him.

“No, don’t be,” he said, taking her hand. “It will be yours anyway, when it’s finished.” He picked up the sketchbook, looking at it thoughtfully.

“I wonder if it looks anything like the music sounded.” He began stroking her fingers with his thumb. Her hand fit so perfectly in his. “I was fascinated by the way you put sounds together. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything like it before.”

“I’m not trained, of course,” Rose stammered. Her heart sped up with each brush of his skin against hers.

“But that’s exactly why it’s so fascinating. Your music is original. Your ideas are like you—unique.”

His gaze was soft but so intense that she blushed. She was aware of the warmth of his body next to hers, the closeness of his lips to her own. She looked away in confusion, but she could still feel him looking at her, and it felt more intimate than anything she had ever experienced before.

I shouldn’t be doing this, she thought. This is dangerous. This is…

She looked up, directly into his eyes. Gently he kissed her on the mouth. Rose melted into the dizzy, glorious feeling. Although everything she knew told her that she was behaving dreadfully, dangerously, she could not stop kissing him. It simply felt right, she thought, shocked at how easy it was to behave in ways one would not have dreamed possible.

She felt his hands at her waist, shifting her onto his lap as his lips moved against hers more desperately. She pressed her body against his. An overpowering need to erase the space between them had taken her over, and she ran her hands through his hair, deepening their kiss.

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