Chapter 157

Beau complied. Once snuggled down with his head on Beau’s chest, he asked the question he had asked earlier. Their eyes were not engaged as Beau said, “I don’t want to make you unhappy or upset, but I want to know you, all of you.”

Jeanne-Marie said, “You want to know what happened—how I got so hideous.”

“You’re not hideous.” Beau snuggled closer, letting his hand trace across Jeanne-Marie’s features. Beau got up on one elbow for a moment to kiss his man lightly on the mouth. He lay back down. “Did someone hurt you?” Beau asked.

He settled back down on the pillow he had fashioned from Jeanne-Marie’s chest and listened, confident that the time had come for Jeanne-Marie to tell his story.