The Heiress Bride (41 page)

She did, with gratifying enthusiasm.

He kissed her until she was breathless, then he squeezed her tightly against him. “Jesus, if anything had happened to you I couldn't have borne it.”

She felt his big body shake. She hugged him more tightly, kissing his neck. Then she felt the soft warmth again, swirling around her, about both her and Colin, but he didn't appear to feel it. Then it began to recede, but there wasn't any coldness in its place. No, in its wake was perfect stillness and a sort of softness in the air itself. Then, suddenly, Sinjun heard a faint lilting sound that could have been a laugh, perhaps.

Colin said as he nibbled on her earlobe, “I like your laugh, Sinjun. It's soft and warm and as sweet as a moonless night.”

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author's Imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

ISBN: 978-1-1012-1414-5

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