New Hope for the Little Cornish Farmhouse by Nancy Barone

Author:Nancy Barone [Barone, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781838938031
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 2020-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

23

La La Land

That afternoon Luke and I decided to go for a walk over to Mullion Cove. Ben was at Jack’s, and the girls were finally at Chanel’s. I was glad that Chloe had decided she wasn’t too high and mighty to share her celebrity friend.

‘This is such an inspiring landscape,’ Luke said.

I nodded. ‘Yes, some of my best work was born while dreaming of these cliffs. As a matter of fact, most of the classics that were set in Cornwall were because the author had spent some time here and couldn’t bear to leave. I couldn’t bear to leave it myself, even if—’

‘Nina?’

‘What?’

‘Shush a minute. I’m inspired.’

‘Oh. Did you just have a brainstorm? Good, because we need one like—’

And then he took me by the shoulders. ‘Are you going to shut up a minute and let me kiss you or not?’

I stared at him. ‘You want to kiss me…?’

‘Ah, Nina, you don’t know how much…’

I supposed asking him why that was would’ve ruined the moment, so I shut up and watched him watch me, his eyes twinkling, his lips nearing mine, and my heart began to beat a soft tattoo that I’d long forgotten.

‘Brace yourself,’ he murmured against my mouth, his voice so low I could barely hear him. But I felt his words inside me, like a vibration. ‘I have a feeling this is going to be a good one.’

And then his lips touched mine in the tenderest of kisses. He was so sexy, yet delicate.

‘How was that?’ I asked and he rolled his eyes. ‘I don’t know yet. Give me another one.’

I closed my eyes and let him kiss me again. It felt exactly like the naughty moment with Kevin Nealson in third grade, when he asked to see my knickers. Only more delicious. I hadn’t felt like this in so many years that it was almost new to me all over again. The awakening, the shivers, the excitement. Could I bear it when, very probably, a disappointment would ensue? Was I strong enough to let myself go again… and suffer the consequences if it didn’t go well? How could it go well? I was a single mum from a Cornish village the size of a big family, and he was the Hollywood dream personified. Where was the common ground?

‘Nina – you drive me crazy…’ he murmured against my ear.

‘So do you,’ was all I could say.

‘I think I’m falling in love with you, you know?’

I giggled. I didn’t mean to, but it just happened.

‘Is it so difficult to believe that love can blossom out of an ordinary encounter?’

‘Love? Luke, we’ve only just met…’

‘So?’

‘But… you’re a Hollywood star. I’m a writer from Cornwall with writer’s block, to boot.’

‘Nina, I know you weren’t exactly crazy about me when we met. But I’m hoping that you may have grown fond of me lately?’

‘You know that I am not totally indifferent to your charm.’

‘That’s a good start,’ he whispered, his lips barely touching my jawline now, sending shivers up into my hair.

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