Название: Wife To A Stranger
Автор: Daphne Clair
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современные любовные романы
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Burning like a rocket
exploding into stars most splendid in its dying is this love of ours
The song was called ‘Fire in the Sky’. She loved the tune, but the words saddened her, telling of a love that had flared briefly, incandescently.
too bright to last the distance
a fire in the sky.
‘He knows,’ Rolfe murmured.
‘He?’
‘The guy who wrote the song.’ He turned his head, his eyes half closed and gleaming, his mouth cynical. ‘Doesn’t he?’
‘It isn’t like that with me!’
Rolfe’s attitude was relaxed but very still. Something stirred in those almost-hidden dark eyes. ‘How would you know?’ he enquired softly.
‘I know if I really loved someone it would be for ever. Not some flash in the pan, like in the song.’
‘You sound as though you mean it.’
‘I just know that’s how it is, for me.’
‘Really.’ Although he still hadn’t shifted his position, his hand was tightly gripping the back of the sofa. ‘And yet you left me.’
‘Left you?’ She stared at him.
Rolfe stirred then, sitting up but not meeting her eyes. ‘To go off to Australia without me.’
‘But that was a holiday…wasn’t it?’ Doubt sneaked in and a hollow feeling opened in her stomach. ‘Do you mean I didn’t intend to come back? But…if we were separated, I’m here under false pretences—’ The thought was frightening. If their marriage had ended, if he didn’t really want her here, she had no right to be with him, and where could she go? A sliver of fear chilled her.
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