Harlequin Desire November 2016, Box Set 1 of 2 by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488027222
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Dancing with Portia set him ablaze. His hands had touched the bare skin of her back peeking out from behind her breezy green sundress. After the music faded, she looked at him through shy eyes.

“Walk me home?” her voice quiet, eyes burning into him.

Easton’s hand trailed alongside her right arm, enjoying the softness of her skin, the way she seemed to melt under his touch.

He leaped at the chance to lace her fingers with his, for the extra time together. His stolen sidelong glances at her increased the farther away they walked from the main mansion to her modest off-white cabana. Her shoulders, normally strained, seemed relaxed. A light breeze tossed her half up, half down hair, the moonlight illuminating soft traces of makeup that accented her slender face and beautiful pink lips. She seemed like a tall fairy—an extension of the landscape. His landscape.

Their footfalls on the white sand road looked like shooting stars in the night.

Portia had always been naturally beautiful, but he couldn’t recall a time when she’d seemed so at ease and calm. The spa afternoon had brushed life back into her, making it all too obvious to him how she always did things for other people and didn’t do things for herself. He wanted to pamper her. He wanted to protect her. But as she spoke of common interests and viewpoints, he wondered if he should be protecting her from himself and his vagabond spirit.

She fiddled with her keys, fishing them out of her pale yellow purse. Shifting her weight from leg to leg, he noticed how her strappy sandals pushed against her skin.

The cabana she’d been given as part of her pay had been stark and basic when she’d arrived. Now the little wooden hut glistened with peace and beauty, her stamp everywhere. Flowers of nearly every hue overflowed from boxes and pots. Lush ground cover filled in spaces with only jeweled step stones breaking their flourish. A fountain built of terracotta clay pots overflowed into a pool of fat orange fish.

She unlocked the bright yellow door, brushing her feet on the mat before stepping inside and clicking on the lights. Inside, a plump, inviting sofa, in what he’d heard Maureen call a shabby chic print, nearly filled the room. There was an artistic flair to Portia he hadn’t noticed before, in spite of her telling him she enjoyed drawing. He could see her creativity in the way she’d planned her garden and how she’d refinished old pieces of furniture, end tables with swirls of color patterned into the grain and shape. Even her simple ice cream parlor table sported handblown glass spheres that filled a bowl like crystallized treats. Somehow, he knew she’d made those, with her patience, frugality and eye for beauty. Why hadn’t he thought before about how she commented on the distinct hues of the birds and other creatures in the wild?

And how had he not stepped inside here before now?

He’d missed so much about her until

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