Susanna Kearsley · @SusannaKearsley
14th Jun 2012 from Twitlonger
@rosario001 Here's a first look at Rob(bie) from Shadowy Horses, grown up as the hero of next year's The Firebird...
(This is my heroine, Nicola, meeting Rob in Eyemouth for the first time in two years):
I’d rehearsed this scene, with variations, all the way from Edinburgh, perfecting my dialogue based on the things I felt sure he would ask me, but all of that went out the window the minute he took the seat opposite, leaning back into the high padded bench as though these past two years hadn’t happened. In that heartbeat as I looked across at him, I could have made myself believe they hadn’t.
He looked just the same, with his almost too-perfect face. When I’d first met him I’d thought he was French from his bone structure—straight nose and boldly-drawn eyebrows and deep-set blue eyes, and that sensual mouth that could suddenly change from its serious line to a quick boyish smile more in keeping with the black unruly hair that always flopped onto his forehead. At the moment his hair was damp, trying to curl at the ends. In a gesture I remembered well he pushed it back and nodded at my drink.
'You want another one of those?’
‘Please.’