Kissed At Twilight by Miriam Minger

Author:Miriam Minger
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: 0
Published: 2018-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

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“Dammit, man, why couldn’t you give her a moment to answer?”

Furious with himself, Adam stuffed the pillow under his head in a vain attempt to become comfortable, the night ahead promising to be a sleepless one. And not because of the lumpy bed he slept upon or that the slack pillows needed more goose down!

He could not forget the look in Linette’s eyes when he’d thrown caution to the wind and told her that she had bewitched him. She’d been utterly surprised, yes, but there had been something more.

A flicker of longing. Her breath caught, her softly rounded chin trembling when he’d come so close to kissing her.

Did he dare to believe she might harbor some burgeoning feelings for him? Surely not as hard as he’d fallen, Adam consumed with thoughts of her from the first moment he’d seen her in church. But in time…in time might she perhaps grow to feel the same for him as he felt so intensely for her?

“Bloody fool,” Adam spat out, anger with himself building again. If he’d given her a chance to respond to his fervent declaration before assuming she wanted little to do with him—but no! Instead, he’d prodded her to reveal what lay at the heart of her hopes for the future and then he’d crushed the vision of happiness she longed for so dearly!

Yet it was true, just as he’d warned her. The man of her dreams that she imagined meeting in London might turn out to be as despicable as his father, and her end one day might be as tragic as his mother’s!

With an impotent roar, Adam threw the wadded pillow across the room and lunged from the bed, pausing only to grab a robe to cover his nakedness. Then he strode to the nearest window and braced his hands against the windowsill, staring blindly outside.

What in blazes was the matter with him? In a few short days, what had become of the rational thought and restrained composure that he’d honed during six years of medical study after turning his back on everything he’d known before? Everything he had hated and despised?

A ragged sigh escaped Adam as he rested his head against the cool windowpane.

He closed his eyes, listening to distant sounds from the harbor…a ship’s bell, the rumbling of wooden barrels along the wharf even at this late hour, and the raucous laughter of sailors as they spilled drunkenly out of one of the taverns.

Yet around him in tidy whitewashed cottages like Dr. Philcup’s, where Adam now resided, the townsfolk slept, and further out from Porthleven in their manor houses, the gentry and local nobility slumbered.

Like Linette Easton. The auburn-haired vision he’d never anticipated meeting who had turned his carefully constructed world upside down.

The often too serious young woman he’d wanted to make laugh and smile when instead, he had ground her cherished dream beneath his heel and wounded her. He’d seen the shock in her beautiful brown eyes and the mist of unshed tears.

Yet at least

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