"...the
smile that rippled slowly off the edge of his mouth was languid from her
perspective, as it grew slowly from just the slightest twinge tugging his
crooked yet sensuous lips wider out into dimples on his cheeks and up to the
finely lined wrinkles around his deep green eyes until they lit from within
with a mischievous fire, like some untamed breed of feline from another
planet or maybe an Irish leprechaun gamely eager to flaunt his wiles. The
initial alarm of potential danger gripped her but then she relaxed, after all
there were so few who really smiled like that these days, their whole being
radiating a mirth that seemed to permeate right through her skin and into her
inner feelings. The chuckle bubbling up from her own throat surprised her as
she heard it almost as if it came from someone else, and her heart swelled that
she had asked." rikkevi rue