One Man's Love by Karen Ranney

Author:Karen Ranney [Karen Ranney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9780380813001
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Amazon: 0380813009
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Goodreads: 687749
Publisher: Avon
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

He drew her closer, half expecting her to pull away, to upbraid him for his actions. But she remained silent, the moment rendered so still and extraordinary that Alec knew he would never forget it.

Too much separated them, yet none of it was their doing.

He leaned closer and she placed her hand on his chest. She had ceased speaking and he could not help but wish she felt as bemused as he.

She sighed and he wanted to capture the sound, inhale it. Her lips were soft and sweet, her openmouthed gasp an invitation to continue. But he didn’t deepen the kiss. Instead, he kept it light, teasing them both.

Finally, he pulled back, breathing heavily against her temple. “Leitis,” he murmured. Just that, only her name and nothing more.

In the lantern light her eyes deepened, the soul of her open and revealed as never before. Or the thought could be simply whimsy, the ramblings of a man enchanted by a woman’s loveliness.

He told himself that his only true bond to her was the shadow of the child she had been and the ghost of what he had once known himself to be. But that thought fell like feathers before a greater truth.

She was not simply the Leitis of his childhood. She was a woman touched by moonlight, a woman who incited his laughter as she shushed chickens, or touched him by placing her hand on his arm in wordless compassion and artless friendship. She had escaped from him, insulted him, and stared fixedly at his nakedness. A woman who fascinated him completely.

He extinguished the lantern, picked up the basket, and slowly turned, extending his hand to her. At the top of the staircase, he pushed up the stone carefully so as not to make any noise. He pulled himself up, then reached down for her, helping her to the priory floor.

He handed her the basket of wool, and she took it wordlessly. Together they stood looking at each other, the moment timeless and trembling.

One last kiss. Wordlessly, he bent his head, touched his lips to hers. He had not known until this moment that a kiss could both hold passion and a myriad of other emotions, friendship and compassion, joy and wonder.

He pulled back finally, cupped her cheek with his gloved hand. Moonlight rendered her a monochrome of beauty; shadows clung to her cheeks and dusted her lips. Her hand rested flat on his chest once more as if she could feel beneath his clothing to the man he was, neither colonel nor Butcher nor Raven. Only Alec.

He felt as if he hung over a precipice, the moment both breathless and frightening. Every thought but one had been stripped from his mind. He left her then, without a word of parting, almost desperate to escape before he divulged another secret to her. Not that of his identity, but of these past moments and a realization that stunned him.

He smiled ruefully, thinking that it was a strange and unwelcome time to fall in love.

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