Chapter 31

“I’m sorry about what I said earlier by the bridges. It didn’t really come out the way I thought it would.”

“Didn’t it?”

Swallowing, I took a few steps closer to him, and I almost expected him to back away from me, but he didn’t. I felt encouraged by that.

“No.” I looked down and reached for his big, calloused hands and wrapped my cold fingers around his warm palm. “You did complicate things. I didn’t expect to come to Northfield and see you again. Let alone, have…this.” I leaned up on my tiptoes and touched my lips to his.

At first his lips were stiff and unyielding, and I was afraid he was going to remain stubborn and possibly even throw me out of the house. Send me back to my sister’s with my tail between my legs.