The gentle touch of warm fingers beneath her jaw, tilting her head up, startled her, and unconsciously she took a step back.

But a gentle touch on his arm startled him, cooled the rage, broke him out of the downward spiral of trial and failure.

Her touch startled him, almost into forgetting about Jamil.

Her touch and reassurance, the affectionate shortening of his name, startled him.

His touch startled Skye and set a small shiver through her.

The touch of cloth on her skin startled her.

The woman's touch startled him.

A touch on his shoulder startled him half out of his chair.

A touch could have startled the baby," she realizes belatedly.

His touch startled her into motion.