To comfort her. That’s all. The breath left her in a sigh as her arms wrapped around his waist. She pressed her cheek against his chest and nestled against him, and God, oh, God, she felt small and fragile and so uncharacteristically vulnerable, it made his chest hurt. “For years, I thought Ramon...
“You are up and walking,” she said when she had regained her composure. “Barely. I feel like a toddler taking his first steps.” “Toddler? I do not know this word.” He made his way to a low bench in the corner of the room and eased down onto it. “A baby. Learning to walk.” “You are no baby,” she s...
He stood facing her, legs spread, arms folded over his chest, as Scarlett shook her head. “I can’t believe I was so gullible.” She forced herself to meet his eyes. When she did, she forgot all about her intended resentment and actually felt sorry for him. “Don’t you get it? J.D. had well-thought-...
Out loud. It would have scared her, but that would have been redundant. She was already scared, good and scared, and she didn’t want her little brother to know it. “Maybe you’re being too dramatic. Maybe you really aren’t lost. Yeah, and maybe the sun doesn’t set in the west,” Mackenzie Kincaid m...