Heartwood (2011)

Authors: Belva Plain

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“That was the first thing Laura noticed about him. That, and his eyes, which were not brown, as she would have expected in a man with such dark hair, but a light color, somewhere between green and blue. They were fringed with lashes that were almost too long for a man. He wasn’t handsome in a conventional sense—his features were too craggy for that, and his mouth was too wide. But there was such intelligence in those green-blue eyes. He was dressed like a teenager, in blue jeans, a T-shirt and w...ork boots, with a leather jacket slung over his shoulder.
He was shading his eyes from the sunlight. And he was staring at her. She wondered how long he’d been doing that. Without thinking, she pulled her skirt down to cover as much of her bare legs and feet as she could. He shook his head slightly as if to clear it. “Lil didn’t tell you I was coming this morning?” he asked. His voice was deep, with a slight huskiness to it.
“No.”
“I should have known! She’s been rewriting an article she did, and when she’s working like that she shuts out everything else.MoreLess Read More Read Less