One Week As Lovers
“Cynthia dropped the stick of charcoal and watched it roll across the desktop as she planted her chin in her hand.
Hours of uncomfortable silence as she and Nick worked together, climbing cliffs and poking their heads into every narrow crevice.
He’d said nothing more about her recklessness or safety. He’d said hardly anything else at all, and she hadn’t been in a talkative mood either. But despite their concentration on the task at hand, they’d found nothing. Nothing except the genuine d...istance that had grown between them over the years.
For a short time that morning he’d seemed so familiar. Funny and handsome and carefree. But then he’d become that other creature. That London gentleman whose natural charm had been hammered into a brutal tool. He still had charisma, there was no denying that, but now it was polished to a shine. Like jewelry. Or a weapon. Or armor.
But if he was protecting something, it certainly wasn’t the soft heart he’d worn on his sleeve as a boy.MoreLess
Hours of uncomfortable silence as she and Nick worked together, climbing cliffs and poking their heads into every narrow crevice.
He’d said nothing more about her recklessness or safety. He’d said hardly anything else at all, and she hadn’t been in a talkative mood either. But despite their concentration on the task at hand, they’d found nothing. Nothing except the genuine d...istance that had grown between them over the years.
For a short time that morning he’d seemed so familiar. Funny and handsome and carefree. But then he’d become that other creature. That London gentleman whose natural charm had been hammered into a brutal tool. He still had charisma, there was no denying that, but now it was polished to a shine. Like jewelry. Or a weapon. Or armor.
But if he was protecting something, it certainly wasn’t the soft heart he’d worn on his sleeve as a boy.MoreLess
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