Thief of Fate by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 2022-08-09T23:09:18+00:00

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CORA STOOD IN the supermarket produce aisle, absently tossing apples into a plastic bag. It was Thursday night, and neither she nor Liam had found time to go grocery shopping all week. They’d been so focused on work and searching for Finn it seemed as if the days were beginning to blur together, and they’d barely had a chance to come up for air. After yet another evening of fast-food burgers and fries on the way home, Cora had decided to stock the fridge with something a little less artery-clogging.

She wandered over to the vegetables, tossing several prebagged salad kits, extra cucumbers, and a bag of baby carrots into the cart, then backtracked to the fruit aisle again to grab some oranges. Normally, she was a lot more efficient when she shopped, not zigzagging around in random directions like one of those robot floor vacuums, but her mind was too busy spinning on the same hamster wheel she’d been hung up on all week. Where is Finn? No one had been able to locate him. They’d checked his penthouse repeatedly, even calling the building manager to find out if Finn had been in contact. They’d gone to the gym to ask around, but Finn hadn’t made any recent appearances there, either. Cora even tracked down the number for his sister, Genevieve, in New York City, asking if she’d heard from Finn lately. She hadn’t. It was as if he’d just vanished into thin air, and with every day that passed, Cora’s fear and worry for him grew. She was beginning to lose sleep.

On top of all that, she’d been having increasingly vivid dreams of her and Liam again, always in those old-fashioned clothes and in the same rural setting. Sometimes they walked hand in hand along a forest path. Sometimes they sat in a field near an old stone wall. And sometimes they stood in a dark garden beneath a million stars, sharing kisses so filled with heat and passion the whole world could’ve fallen down around them, and they wouldn’t have noticed. Those were the dreams that made Cora wake gasping, her body thrumming with desire, limbs tingling with the loss of the man she’d been holding. It was often hard to go back to sleep afterward, especially knowing the star of her dreams—the modern-day version, anyway—was sleeping in the very next room.

Cora pushed her grocery cart toward the wine section of the supermarket, thinking about her impromptu make-out session in the kitchen last Saturday with Liam. They still hadn’t talked about it, but she didn’t mind. They’d been so busy, and most importantly, she wasn’t worried because she was no longer in the dark about Liam’s feelings for her. Sometimes she blushed just thinking about how heartfelt and sincere he’d been when he said all those wonderful things to her. She knew it was only a matter of time before everything clicked into place for them. They shared an undeniable attraction, and every day that passed seemed to bring them closer together.

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