Krista hadn’t tried making love to him while she was on her period because even though she was new to the whole sex thing, the idea of that just grossed her out. So, while she’d been on her period, she eased Toby back into some of their comfortable routine. He’d started holding her while they slept. He’d hugged her good-bye in the mornings before she set off to work in the office and he on the land. A few times she’d initiated a kiss, and he returned it because he knew it was what she wanted, but he’d immediately look away from her, too ashamed to maintain eye contact. No matter how many times she’d tried reassuring him that he’d only done what she wanted him to do, it never seemed to work. A little voice in the back of her mind told her that maybe he was having such a hard time because he wanted to mate with her and knew he couldn’t, that maybe he was fighting his animal side for control. She’d like to believe that because that’d mean he wanted her on an emotional level.
