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“Then let’s move away”
He twirled her off in another direction and then glanced up “Alas, another one”
This tihtly, dizzy with the heat pouring through her The last two hours with hientleman that made her yearn for impossible dreams
He spun with her again, and when he paused, they both looked up
“Yet more mistletoe,” she said with a wide smile, but how her heart pounded
“Did you know it is widely believed that it was the Norsemen and women who first romanticized mistletoe?”
“I did not know that,” she said with a small smile “But I knew the Celtic druids used it for vitality and fertility”
“H pulse at her throat, lingering there too long to be an accident “In Norse y, when Odin’s son Baldur was prophesied to die, his oddess of love—went to all the animals and plants of the earth to secure an oath that they would not harLoki made an arrow from the plant and saw that it was used to kill the otherwise invincible Baldur The gods were able to resurrect Baldur frooddess of love then declared mistletoe a symbol of love and vowed to plant a kiss on all those who passed beneath it That folklore evolved where we fine gentleht standing under theis viewed as bad luck”
He touched her elbow, urging her to hientle and protective
The thrill he gave Callie amazed her “I would hate to deny you and endure any misfortune,” she teased
His dark eyebrows arched, then he spoke in a velvet ht my heart just now”
He lifted her chin with a finger Whenever his blue gaze met hers, her heart turned over in response Callie’s whole being see His thumb swiped over her lips The caress was a command And she parted her lips
His head reached down, and Graham kissed her mouth more persuasive than she would have liked to adh her wanton heart, and she slipped her hands around his neck and held him to her He tasted like a summer storm, he tasted like happiness…and ruin They spoke of no sentiments, nor had he ainst the desires sweeping through her body
I a to burn with need like this in someone’s arms
He plundered to her ue with his Their kiss was fiery, wild, and wet Oh, God It was as if she was another person Excite and uncertain, righted itself