Heart of Stone by Paula Quinn

Author:Paula Quinn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Highland
Published: 2019-08-28T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

JULIANNA WATCHED NICHOLAS bend to lay his son down. Her breath came in short little gasps that made her feel lightheaded and giddy. He looked so handsome in his military coat that she could scarcely breathe. She’d asked him for a kiss. How could she have been so bold? She didn’t care how bold she was. She liked it. Nicholas liked it. He didn’t have to say it. The fire in his eyes spoke volumes. He desired her. It excited her and frightened her at the same time. She was afraid of being intimate with him. She knew he would be nothing like Phillip, if they married…in the spring. She closed her eyes remembering his playful replies that had suddenly become serious. Had he been? Her heart sped and her belly flipped and burned. She wrung her hands together while she waited for him to bid Elias goodnight.

Why had she asked him to kiss her? Why did she feel like an inexperienced virgin when she was not? She had been married, and forgetting Phillip, she had kissed Nicholas before. Yet it was as if she had just met him, as if he had never touched her before that moment.

He straightened from seeing to his son and turned to her.

Her heart leaped in her chest. She wanted this intimacy with him, no matter how it frightened her. This was the man she trusted, the man she’d known her whole life, but could never have. Now, she could have him.

“Come,” he said in his low, bewitching voice, taking her hand. “I will escort you to your chambers.”

She wondered while they walked how the simple act of holding his hand could almost be the thing to bring her to her knees. For Julianna, there was nothing more intimate than taking her hand and walking with her. She loved how big he felt beside her, the way his gait felt against her, making his arm brush her shoulder or his hand touch her hip. She loved how possessive his taking hold of her hand felt. Her nerve endings sizzled with desire for more with him, of him.

When they came to her door, he took her hands in his. He kissed her knuckles and let his lips linger on her while he looked up from beneath his dark brows and whispered against her skin. “I miss kissing you, Julianna.” He turned her wrist over, exposing the inside to his teasing lips.

She closed her eyes, though watching him in the golden glow of the torchlit walls was almost just as pleasing as his mouth.

He stopped and lifted her wrist around his neck. She opened her eyes to gaze into his and tried not to groan out loud, but failed. She was tempted to call him William because that’s who she remembered loving. But he wasn’t William anymore. He was Nicholas, the brooding father, a broken, angry, detached man with a shield around his heart. A man who ran from her when things felt serious. A man whose words now carried weight with others.

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