Hearts in Defiance (Romance in the Rockies book 2)
“She nearly did when gruff hands grabbed her and spun her around.
Ian.
Ashamed of her emotional reaction, she tried to pull out of his grasp, looking anywhere but at him. He clutched her tightly to him with one arm and tilted her chin up. “Ye didnae let me finish.” He wiped a tear away with his thumb and she settled against him … a little. “I wanted a hundred times to just come right out and ask how ye felt. Then ye started burning things when I tried to speak of it and I started wondering if ma...ybe ye thought I was too old.
That I’ve nothing left to offer a wife.”
Rebecca squeezed her eyes shut and twisted her head. Fear had held them back from so much.
“The fact is ye make me feel like a young man again, full of vim and vinegar.” He pressed his lips to her forehead as he spoke. “I’m not meself without ye. I feel … undone. Ye’re the first person I want to see every day … and I go to bed every night dreaming aboot ye. Aboot life with ye. Aboot … loving again.”MoreLess
Ian.
Ashamed of her emotional reaction, she tried to pull out of his grasp, looking anywhere but at him. He clutched her tightly to him with one arm and tilted her chin up. “Ye didnae let me finish.” He wiped a tear away with his thumb and she settled against him … a little. “I wanted a hundred times to just come right out and ask how ye felt. Then ye started burning things when I tried to speak of it and I started wondering if ma...ybe ye thought I was too old.
That I’ve nothing left to offer a wife.”
Rebecca squeezed her eyes shut and twisted her head. Fear had held them back from so much.
“The fact is ye make me feel like a young man again, full of vim and vinegar.” He pressed his lips to her forehead as he spoke. “I’m not meself without ye. I feel … undone. Ye’re the first person I want to see every day … and I go to bed every night dreaming aboot ye. Aboot life with ye. Aboot … loving again.”MoreLess
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