The Wedding List: A London Christian romance (Love In Store Book 1) by Autumn Macarthur

Author:Autumn Macarthur [Macarthur, Autumn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Faith, Hope, & Heartwarming
Published: 2014-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

James lifted his head, breaking the kiss for a flash of air, and opened his eyes to look at Beth’s lovely face, the face he held so tenderly in his hands.

Her kiss awakened something in him he’d never experienced before, tasting of sweetness and joy and hope.

And something more, a sense of home he’d always missed.

Illogical it might be, but this wasn’t the time for logic or intellect.

The truth was there, in her lips against his.

Now he’d found Beth again, he wanted to drink her in, with his lips, with his eyes, with his hands. Give in to his longing for her, the same longing he'd felt at nineteen, and felt even while they were apart.

Time to stop thinking about what he should do or shouldn’t do, and follow his instincts. God given instincts that made him want to tell the world he’d found the one his soul loved. To hold her, and not let her go.

Thought and intellect and doing what his family expected of him had governed his life for too long.

Now, logic and thinking appeared overrated.

Almost without his conscious intent, his hands moved, tracing her features with his fingertips. The arch of her eyebrows. The curve of her cheekbones. The cute little tip-tilted line of her nose. The soft fullness of her lips. The contour of her chin.

Her long eyelashes quivered as he gently explored her face, but her eyes stayed closed.

Beth was so different to the other women he met.

Half were serious and dedicated scientists, working twice as hard to prove themselves in a male dominated workplace.

The other half, like Immy and her friends, valued nothing about him but his lineage. To them, the only thing that mattered was that he was the heir to both the British Tetherton and the American Hart fortunes. His calling to science and research was an inconvenience or an irrelevancy to them.

Only Beth appreciated who he truly was.

Back in that wonderful summer, he’d told her things about himself no-one else knew. She was the one person he’d ever trusted enough to let down the barriers with.

She’d been too young for more than the deep friendship they shared, and he was willing to wait for her.

Their first kiss had been a long time coming, but it more than made up for the delay.

Dear Lord, please don’t make us wait ten years for our next kiss.

Lifting both hands, he stroked her hair back from her forehead. Sticky powder, part of her ugly Halloween costume, streaked the rich nut-brown with grey, marring its soft sheen.

In jeans and a shirt and sneakers, shiny hair tied back in a thick pony tail, the way she’d dressed last night, she’d looked so much more his Beth. The Beth he’d known at Tetherton Hall.

Cradling her head in his hands, he stared at her as if memorising her every line.

Her delicate eyelids flickered open, showing eyes that held a mix of emotion.

Tenderness, desire, confusion. A hint of fear and uncertainty.

The same uncomfortable emotions he felt. Their kiss laid him wide open and vulnerable, in a way he’d never been before.

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