Be My Love (A Walker Island Romance Book 1) by Lucy Kevin Page A

exhausted. Yet, as she showered and got dressed, she knew exactly why she was so full of energy.
    She loved Joel. Loved him completely. Loved him with everything she was.
    She never would have gone to bed with him if she didn’t.
    Joel would need to get back to the island today, but before that she hoped they could carve out a little more time to catch up with Mandy and get that tour through the bed and breakfast’s past that they’d never quite gotten around to the night before.
    Maybe they would learn something more about Poppy’s past, and maybe they wouldn’t, but just the thought of Joel being there with her, holding her hand while they searched together, was enough to send a warm glow straight through the middle of Hanna’s heart.
     
    * * *
     
    By the time Hanna emerged from the shower, dressed again and lovely as ever, Joel figured he should have been used to her beauty. Especially after the hours they’d spent together in each other’s arms the night before. But he was just as stunned as ever, so much so that he almost couldn’t get his brain to work right and his fingers fumbled on the final button of his shirt.
    “Are you ready to head downstairs? Because,” she said with a grin that was at once pretty and sensual, “I’d be more than happy to stay up here.”
    Having a heck of a time trying to silence the voices inside his head that kept warning him he was making a huge mistake with her—and that if his father and grandfather were still alive they would never forgive him for allowing himself to get close to a Walker—he finally managed to say, “After missing dinner last night, we should probably go down and eat some breakfast.”
    One of them had to be sensible about this, didn’t they? Especially after last night had been anything but.
    He could easily see the disappointment race across her face, before she quickly pushed it away. “I’ll just make sure my camera’s all charged and then I’ll be ready to go down.”
    Only Hanna would need her video camera to go get breakfast. Joel smiled at that, and in that moment he wanted her as much as ever. Just watching her sleep when he’d woken a short while before her, his heart had been doing small flips in his chest as she lay cradled in his arms. And when she’d kissed him good morning, it had felt so right. Even now, it was all he could do to keep from kissing her again.
    But it was just that thought—of how much he wanted her—that made him nervous.
    He wanted so much, so quickly. And with a Walker, of all people.
    A Walker who made his heart beat faster every time he looked into her eyes.
    “I loved waking up next to you,” she said in a soft voice as she slipped a hand into his. “I can’t wait to do it again.”
    They were just a few simple words, but ones that hinted at so much more. Not just the perfect way they’d come together last night as man and woman...but at the possibility of a life together.
    Again, his chest clenched tight at the thought of what his father and grandfather would think if they were still here to see him with Hanna. They’d be angry. So angry that he’d broken ranks and had let himself fall for her.
    Downstairs, Mandy was already serving up breakfast to several other guests. Thanks to Hanna and her friendly questions, Joel soon found out that the gray haired couple had been to the festival every year for a couple of decades now, the group of college students had come from Vancouver to enjoy the big event for the first time, and the two women sitting together had come all the way from New York.
    “What do you do when you’re not traveling to festivals?” she asked one of the women.
    “I work in pyrotechnics.”
    “Like firework displays?”
    “Mostly movies and TV shows, actually.”
    “Wow, so maybe the next time my sister Morgan does the makeup for a movie action sequence, there’s a chance you’ll be there, too?”
    “Your sister works in movies?”
    Soon everyone was chatting together, the