Make Me Remember by Beth Kery

Author:Beth Kery [Kery, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781101988275
Google: C6hcCwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B01AHKY3HI
Barnesnoble: B01AHKY3HI
Goodreads: 28648774
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Present Day

Harper awoke with a small sob. Again, tears dampened her cheeks. She remembered more details of her dream than she had earlier today, but it was still murky. Mostly, it was the swelling emotion in her chest that lingered.

It took her a moment to find her bearings. She saw the glow from the distant yacht bridge and felt their subtle rocking in the water. The star-strewn sky curved above them, a half-moon lighting the surroundings to a surprising degree. Memory hit her in a rush. They’d fallen asleep after watching the fireworks.

“Jacob?” she murmured. She flipped over onto her belly on the sofa.

“Harper?” He stirred at her movement, his fingers falling out of her hair, his knee bending and rubbing against her shoulder. She rose up over him, planting her hands next to his head and settling her body beneath his spread legs. He felt warm and solid and wonderful. His hand rose again to her head, but his eyes were still closed. “It’s okay, Harper. Everything’s going to be all right,” he said groggily.

A pain went through her at his automatic, unconscious response. Again, that feeling of sharp longing sliced through her. She thought of how Jacob took care of the troubled Regina Morrow, and gave children of his town a moment of carefree summer fun with the fireworks; how he sponsored the women’s shelter Harper had gotten Ellie into, and how he protected neglected or abused animals with the local shelter. He did all those things—and probably countless other acts of kindness and generosity that she didn’t know about.

And how the first thing he did, even in the midst of sleep, was assure her—Harper—that everything was all right

Even so, people like Ruth Dannen and thousands of others made sly, nasty comments about his character.

A huge, powerful feeling of love and compassion rose in her. She pulled her sundress up to her waist and yanked the blanket up over her shoulder and part of her head, tenting them partially. She leaned down and rained small kisses on his jaw, finally settling on his mouth with a fevered kiss. It took her a moment to awaken him, but knew she had when his firm lips started to move beneath hers and his hands grasped her upper arms.

“Harper?” he mumbled against her mouth even as his lips plucked at her hungry ones. “What are you doing?”

“Making love to you,” she whispered, turning her head to get a better angle on his mouth and penetrating his lips with her tongue. He tasted divine. Their kiss turned hot and wet. He tried to shift her off of him onto the wide couch. She instinctively understood he wanted to come down over her, hold her down, make her a fixed target to ensure she received every ounce of pleasure he conferred.

“No,” she whispered, gripping his hips with her knees and keeping herself in place. “I’m making love to you.”

“It’s a mutual thing,” he replied wryly, tangling his fingers in her long hair.

“It is, but it isn’t.

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