Lost Identity
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Slipping her arm through his as they walked, she confessed, “I feel as if I’ve been running to catch a bus that’s already left. Not a bus, exactly, more like a plane.” She tossed her head and laughed. “Yes, definitely a plane.”
He searched her face and saw that her ocean-blue eyes were sparkling with suppressed excitement. “What are you trying to tell me?”
“You’re not the only one who can make changes in their life.”
He stopped and turned her toward him. “All right, you’ve got my attention.”
The quickening of his breath was evident in the sudden rapid movement of his chest as she looked up into his face and said, “I’ve made Curtis the CEO, and decided to let him run Atlantis for me.”
“But the company has been your whole life, Trish.” He was dumbfounded. “You can’t just give it away like that.”
“I’m not giving it away,” she corrected him with a toss of her head. “I’m putting Atlantis in better hands than mine, and freeing myself from the legacy that Patricia Radcliffe handed to me.”
“Are you sure about this?”
She smiled as she leaned into him. “I’ve decided to follow my heart and spend some time abroad.”
“And where you are planning on going?” he asked as he folded her into his arms.
“I was thinking Switzerland.”
“Really?” he said in mock surprise as a geyser of joy shot through him.
She lifted her lips temptingly close to his. “To tell the truth, I was thinking that a mountain chalet would be a lovely place for a wedding. That is, if a certain gentleman decided to ask me to marry him.”
His smile was tender and intimate, and as he lowered his mouth to hers, his possessive kiss was all the answer she needed.
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LOST IDENTITY
Copyright © 2002 by Leona Karr
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