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The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy

The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy

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Autoren: Nora Roberts
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you were born on. So take all your fancy houses and your bank drafts and your credit line and stuff them. Choke on them!”
    Tears spoiled her aim, but the ricochets and flying debris were awesome. Trevor blocked the lamp she’d yanked out of the wall, stepped on glass, swore. “I don’t want a mistress.”
    “Go to hell.” It was the best she had left, and knowing it, she snatched up a small carved box and ran out with it.
    “For God’s sake.” He had to sit down on the bed to pick the glass out of his feet. He had the hideous notion she might be getting a knife or some other sharp implement, then his head snapped up when he heard the door slam.
    “Darcy! Damn it.” Leaping up, leaving blood smeared on the floor, he rushed after her.
    He supposed he could have handled it all with less finesse. If he’d been a gibbering ape. He streaked down the stairs, swore again when he heard the boom of the pub door crashing shut. For Christ’s sake, here they were, neither of them dressed, and where does she take the crisis but outside? A sensible man would run in the opposite direction.
    Trevor bolted through the kitchen after her.
    She let the box fly as she ran, and closed her fist tight on the stone she’d kept inside it. Wishes be damned, she thought in fury. Love be damned. Trevor be damned. She was throwing it and all it meant into the sea.
    She’d have no part of it now, no part of hopes and dreams and promises. If loving meant burying everything she was for a man who had such contempt for her, she would have no part of that either.
    Hair flying, she raced along the seawall under a sky softening toward dawn. She didn’t hear her own sobbing over the pulse and pump of the sea, nor Trevor’s call and the sudden, frantic plea in it.
    She stumbled onto the beach, would have fallen if he hadn’t caught her.
    “Darcy, wait. Don’t.” His arms shook as they wrapped around her. He’d thought she’d meant to plunge into the water.
    She turned on him like a wildcat, kicking, scratching, biting. In shock as much as defense, he pulled her down to the sand where he could lie on top of her and hold her still.
    A hangover, he discovered, was nothing compared to the pain inflicted by Darcy Gallagher in a temper. “Easy.” He panted it out. “Just take it easy.”
    “I’ll kill you, first chance.”
    “I believe it.” He looked down at her. Her face was streaked with tears, and they continued to fall though her eyes were burning with fury. Here, he thought, was the first time he’d seen her weep for herself. And he’d caused it.
    “I deserve it for fumbling this so badly. Darcy, I wasn’t asking you to be my mistress—which is a ridiculous term and completely unsuitable when applied to you. I was trying to ask you to marry me.”
    He knocked the breath out of her as surely as if he’d rammed his elbow into her belly. “What?”
    “I was asking you to marry me.”
    “Marry, as in husband and wife, rings on our fingers, till death do us part?”
    “That’s the one.” He risked a smile. “Darcy, I—”
    “Will you get off me? You’re hurting me.”
    “Sorry.” He rolled aside, helped her up. “If I could just start over.”
    “Oh, no, let’s pick up where you left off. When you were offering me houses and bank accounts. That’s how you chose to propose to the likes of me?”
    Her voice was like sugar, with each crystal honed like a razor. “Ah . . .”
    “You think I’d marry you for what you have, for what you can give me?” She shoved him back two full steps. “You think you can buy me like one of your companies?”
    “But you’ve said—”
    “I don’t care what I’ve said. Any moron would see it was just talk if they took the time to listen, to look. I’ll tell you what you can do with your fine houses and your big accounts, Magee. You can burn them to the ground for all I care. I’ll buy the fucking torch and light it.”
    “You made it clear—”
    “I made nothing clear, as nothing was clear to me. But now I will. I’d have taken you with nothing. Now I’ll take you not at all.”
    She turned, flung back her arm. It was blind instinct that made him grab her, pry her fingers open. “What is this?”
    “It’s mine, given to me by Carrick. Sapphire.” She jerked away from him as her voice began to hitch again. “The heart of the sea. I could wish on it, he told me. One wish only, for my heart’s desire. But I didn’t use it and never will. Do you know

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