Dangerous (29 page)
“I need to make a correction,” he whispered, breathing heavily.
“You’re not conceited?” I asked.
“Oh, I’m definitely conceited, but I told you that I
thought
I was already in love with you. The truth is…I am. I
am
in love with you, Dara Golding.”
“How do you know?” I asked timidly, daring to hope that he could truly love me, that I had affected him the way that he had affected me.
“I know because I can’t stand the thought of you not being with me.” His hand encompassed mine, the heat from his palm seeping into my pores, and he gave it a gentle squeeze, emphasizing his words. “You make me want to be a better person, Dara, and I would do anything for you. I know I’m in love with you because I
need
you.”
A single tear slid down my cheek, and he wiped it away with his thumb. Besides my grandparents, no one had ever needed me. Not my mother. Not my father. Not even Chance.
When I first met Stone, he scared me. Honestly, he still did in some ways. But as I looked into his eyes, I knew he was telling me the truth. I could see it in his expression. I could hear it in his voice.
He loved me.
“Will you be my girlfriend?” he whispered, his question filled with hope.
As he caressed my face and kissed me tenderly, he made me feel like the most special person in the entire world. It was then that I truly understood what Granny had meant.
“Yes, Stone. I’ll be your girlfriend,” I whispered, barely finishing my sentence before he pulled me back to his lips.
Stone did more than pass the kissing test. He nailed it with absolute perfection.
by
Suzannah Daniels
Young Adult
Ghostly Encounter (Ghostly Series-Book One)
Adult
Viking’s Embrace
Excerpt from Ghostly Encounter
Seventeen-year-old Mia Randall longed for someone to take her mind off her heartrending breakup with her first real boyfriend.
Benjamin Alexander Richards did exactly that.
There was only one problem.
He was a ghost.
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He continued to walk along the path. She noticed that his Rebel uniform seemed much more tattered than Josh’s. “Have you been reenacting for a long time?”
He stopped then and turned to look at her. A slow, sad smile spread across his handsome face. He studied her with those beautiful eyes.
“Far too long.”
She watched as he pursed his lips, and she wondered what it would be like to be kissed by him. “You sound as if you don’t enjoy it. Why do you do it?”
He clenched his jaw and looked away.
“I’m sorry if I said something to upset you.” She went to touch his arm reassuringly and then she stared in frozen horror, her body locked in position as she gaped at him. Her hand had gone right through him as if there was nothing before her but the very air she breathed.
“Don’t be frightened,” he whispered.
She backed away.
“Please don’t go,” he pleaded, begging her with those brilliant, azure eyes. “I beseech you to stay with me, if only for a while.”
Suzannah Daniels has had an affinity for words for as long as she can remember. She grew up in North Georgia with four brothers, so she learned at an early age to admire snakes and motorcycles. When she wasn’t pestering her brothers, she could usually be found reading or writing.
Currently, she lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee with her husband and teenage daughter. Her son lives nearby. The family pets include a black Lab mix, a Basset Hound, a Shih Tzu, and a sweet, little kitty.
She is the author of
Viking’s Embrace
, a historical romance, and
Ghostly Encounter
, Book One of the
Ghostly
series.
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