They make it damn hard for me, those eyes of yours.
He stepped back.
I'd better take you in.
Nathaniel.
She laid a hand on his chest.
You're the first man who's made me..
.who I've wanted to be with since Kevin was born.
Something flashed in his eyes, wild, dangerous, before he banked it.
Do you think it
makes it easier on me, knowing that?
He would have laughed, if he hadn't felt so much like exploding.
Megan, you're killing me.
But he swung an arm around her
shoulders and led her down the cliff path.
I don't know how to handle this,
she said under her breath.
I haven't had to
handle anything like this before.
Keep it up,
he warned,
and you're over my shoulder, shanghaied straight to bed.
Mine.
The image gave her a quick thrill, and a guilty one.
I'm just trying to be honest.
Try lying,
he said with a grimace.
Make it easier on me.
I'm a lousy liar.
She slanted a look at him. Wasn't it interesting, she mused, that for once he was the one at a disadvantage?
It doesn't seem logical that it would bother you to know what I'm feeling.
I'm having a lot of trouble dealing with what I'm feeling.
He took a long, steadying
breath.
And I'm not feeling logical.
Nor, he thought ruefully, would he sleep tonight.
'Desire hath no rest.'
What?
Robert Burton. Nothing.
They walked toward the lights of The Towers. The shouting reached them before they crossed the lawn.
Coco,
Megan said.
Dutch.
Taking firm hold of Megan's hand, Nathaniel quickened his pace.
You're insulting and obnoxious,
Coco snapped at Dutch, her chin up, her hands planted on her hips.
His massive arms were folded across his barrel of a chest.
I saw what I saw, said
what I said.
I was not draped all over Trenton like a... a...