Читать книгу A Kiss to Die for - Gail Barrett - Страница 3
Оглавление“I’m sorry. I don’t know what got into me. I never cry.”
Haley wiped her eyes on her shirtsleeve, but tears still beaded in her long lashes.
“You deserve to cry. What they did to you…” Sully clenched his jaw against the reckless words crowding his throat.
“It happened a long time ago. I never think about them anymore. And the baby…” A sheen of tears sprang to her eyes again. “That was…hard. But I can’t change the past. I’ve had to accept it and move on.”
He reached out and smudged away a tear. She was amazing, the most courageous woman he knew. She’d fought for her sister, the teenagers in her shelter, even him.
But who had fought for her?
“Sully.” Her whisper whipped through him.
His body went taut, the invitation in her eyes impossible to miss. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him, her lips soft, almost tentative, a benediction to his aching soul.
Shuddering, he deepened the kiss….
