Zuria said to her brother.Sam was looking strong and healthy, even tanned. She couldn’t believe how the few days he was gone had been so beneficial. He looked like a new man, most of all rested and strong. She never wanted to see him as he was, crumpled on the office floor. When he returned, he signed the paperwork for the new lease, and she understood from what he shared that he and Fane had saved the money they would have needed to buy the current property. So maybe that meant he had just a little she could borrow to start her life over.“Why?” he said in answer to her declaration.She frowned and faced him. He sat behind his desk as cool as a cucumber, like he couldn’t feel the stirrings in her stomach and the whirl in her mind. Of course he couldn’t, but it felt to her like the whole world should, it was so strong.“You know why.” She drew up a chair and dropped into it. “Sam, I can’t do this. To tell you the truth, I want Fane like I’ve never wanted another man. I just don’t see a future with us.”She waited for Sam to respond, but he watched her with those eyes that were the reason she thought of him as an old soul.
