morning without your sweet smile to greet me. I promise to watch over you and protect you the rest of our days if you will agree to stay with me.”
Juliet stared up into his beautiful dark face, afraid that this was another dream and the exquisite words would evaporate upon her awakening. “What has changed since the night I visited the tribe?”
His hands tightened on her shoulders, the grip almost certain to leave red marks on her skin. “When I heard that you were marrying that gadjo , I wanted to rip his heart out.” He grimaced and released a long shuddering breath, his grasp gentling. “I returned to England to lay your memory to rest. I thought I’d find you married with a brood of children and that I’d finally be able to move on. Instead I fell even deeper under your spell.”
He placed both hands against her face, holding her still. “You are mine, Juliet. You always have been. If you run back home, I will follow. I will snatch you from your bed and make sweet love to you until you moan my name and beg me to keep you close forever.”
She noticed that her hands were shaking as she raised them to rest against his chest. “Will the tribe accept this? I could not bear it if you lost your position as Rom baro because of me.”
He was silent for a moment. “The world is changing. I have long considered buying an estate in the north of Spain. We can raise horses there, and in the summer, the tribe can travel to sell them. It will be a place where gypsies are safe. Where our children will be safe,” he added softly. “Would you like that?”
She nodded, unable to speak for the tears that rose to lodge themselves painfully in her throat.
He dropped his head so that their faces were close, almost touching. “Then tell me.”
The deep timbre of his voice shivered along her nerves as her fingers inched up his chest to clutch the edges of his open collar. “I am bonded to you now and forever,” Juliet said as she tugged him down, their lips almost touching.
“And I you, love,” he whispered as their mouths met.
~~~
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lindy Corbin appears to be a mild-mannered accountant, but inside her beats the heart of an adventurer, fated to climb the tallest monuments in the world. Alas, she ascends these stairs alone as friends and family wisely use the elevator. When not dreaming of traveling to 1000 places, she lives in the lush oasis of South Florida, where sunshine and all the odd characters it attracts form a sizzling backdrop for her contemporary stories.
Lindy published her first novel, Auction Affair , in 1988 with Pageant Books. Babies and bills intervened, but finally, she is weaving words together again and avidly searching the internet for photos of the hottest heroes for her book covers.
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Juliet stared up into his beautiful dark face, afraid that this was another dream and the exquisite words would evaporate upon her awakening. “What has changed since the night I visited the tribe?”
His hands tightened on her shoulders, the grip almost certain to leave red marks on her skin. “When I heard that you were marrying that gadjo , I wanted to rip his heart out.” He grimaced and released a long shuddering breath, his grasp gentling. “I returned to England to lay your memory to rest. I thought I’d find you married with a brood of children and that I’d finally be able to move on. Instead I fell even deeper under your spell.”
He placed both hands against her face, holding her still. “You are mine, Juliet. You always have been. If you run back home, I will follow. I will snatch you from your bed and make sweet love to you until you moan my name and beg me to keep you close forever.”
She noticed that her hands were shaking as she raised them to rest against his chest. “Will the tribe accept this? I could not bear it if you lost your position as Rom baro because of me.”
He was silent for a moment. “The world is changing. I have long considered buying an estate in the north of Spain. We can raise horses there, and in the summer, the tribe can travel to sell them. It will be a place where gypsies are safe. Where our children will be safe,” he added softly. “Would you like that?”
She nodded, unable to speak for the tears that rose to lodge themselves painfully in her throat.
He dropped his head so that their faces were close, almost touching. “Then tell me.”
The deep timbre of his voice shivered along her nerves as her fingers inched up his chest to clutch the edges of his open collar. “I am bonded to you now and forever,” Juliet said as she tugged him down, their lips almost touching.
“And I you, love,” he whispered as their mouths met.
~~~
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lindy Corbin appears to be a mild-mannered accountant, but inside her beats the heart of an adventurer, fated to climb the tallest monuments in the world. Alas, she ascends these stairs alone as friends and family wisely use the elevator. When not dreaming of traveling to 1000 places, she lives in the lush oasis of South Florida, where sunshine and all the odd characters it attracts form a sizzling backdrop for her contemporary stories.
Lindy published her first novel, Auction Affair , in 1988 with Pageant Books. Babies and bills intervened, but finally, she is weaving words together again and avidly searching the internet for photos of the hottest heroes for her book covers.
~~
Discover more quality romances then purchase direct (and risk-free) from your favorite outlet(s). See the Steel Magnolia Press website at www.steelmagnoliapress.com .
~~
Subscribe to Fresh Leaves , the Steel Magnolia Press newsletter, to be notified of new releases and subscriber-only specials: http://eepurl.com/gCgrX .
(You can also subscribe from the Steel Magnolia Press website.)
~~
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