Meant-To-Be Mother. Ally Blake
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Название: Meant-To-Be Mother
Автор: Ally Blake
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Контркультура
Серия: Mills & Boon Cherish
isbn: 9781474014342
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Obviously Kane was not nearly as impressed with her qualifications as he was with Matt’s so she decided on another tack. ‘If it makes you feel any better, I have taken a zillion other courses too.’
‘Like what sort?’
‘I have taken lessons on fixing leaking taps, self-defence, I have a scuba licence and I can speak four languages.’
‘Four?’ Kane asked, his pale brown eyes growing large.
‘Yep. My parents were both born in Italy so I knew Italian before I knew English, but I can also speak conversational German and French.’ I can also juggle, even soft drink cans, which would have sent Jessica into a fit had she been told; I can do the splits and tango with the best of them, she thought, feeling a bit like a circus clown.
Kane’s eyes all but popped out of his head.
‘Would you like me to teach you how to say one to ten in Italian?’ she asked.
Kane nodded.
‘Excellent. Okay. Uno…’ Siena dabbed at the scrape with the soaked cotton wool, wiping away specks of dried blood and gravel and doing her dandiest to keep Kane’s eyes on her mouth as she spoke, not on her hands as she tended his stinging wound.
‘Due…’ Siena cleaned the scrape and patted it dry.
‘Tre…’ Siena unwound the child-proof lid of the top of the antiseptic bottle.
‘Quattro…’Siena tipped a healthy amount of antiseptic on to a fresh hunk of cotton wool.
‘Cinque…’Siena dabbed at the scrape, turning Kane’s arm a dull brown.
‘Sei…’ Siena put the lid back on to the bottle.
‘Sette…’ Siena tore a hunk of bandage.
‘Otto…’ Siena placed the bandage over Kane’s arm.
‘Nove…’ Siena ran a soft hand over the bandage, making sure it was in place.
‘Dieci! Well done! To the both of us. Now, can you remember them all?’
He shook his head. ‘Tell me again.’
Siena did so and had Kane repeat after her. Halfway through she felt a tingle on the back of her neck and she realised it was because James was watching her still. She glanced at him sideways. His half-smile had graduated into something not bigger but warmer and she felt a ridiculous flash of satisfaction.
A few moments later Siena realised she was still staring, caught up in James’s complex gaze for so long that she now knew he had a ring of midnight-blue around his silvery pupils.
James swallowed, his Adam’s apple bobbing in his strong throat, and Siena had the distinct feeling he would have been able to describe the exact colour of her eyes too.
‘Teach me another language!’ Kane insisted, shattering the extraordinary tension that had cocooned the room.
‘Not now,’ James said, as he took Kane by the hand and drew him off the seat. ‘I, for one, am in need of a drink.’
And, by the gravel echoing in his voice, Siena had the feeling that if it were not for the presence of Kane, a gin and tonic would have suited him better than lemonade too.
‘Can I tempt you?’ he asked.
She stood, shoving her hands into the back pockets of her jeans. She knew he was talking about something as innocent as lemonade, but the implications of what it could have meant in a parallel universe resonated through her.
‘With lemonade?’ she qualified. ‘You bet.’
‘Yippee,’ Kane said. ‘Then I can show you my bedroom.’
And, just like that, Siena’s breath was sapped from her lungs.
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