As soon as he touched her shoulder, Rebecca straightened and without words herself, melted into his chest, a sobbing mess.He held her tight to him, his arms wrapped around her, covering her shoulders, her back, while she closed her eyes and simply wept. She felt his kiss at the top of her head and he didn’t speak or do anything. He simply held her.It wasn’t even from the humiliation of her punishment that she wept. Or at least not only that. In fact, that embarrassment was not on her mind now that he held her. It was over, her punishment, and she had been forgiven. She didn’t need to hear his words to know it. She had made a mess of things. What had happened today in the courthouse, how she had damaged her own reputation that one stupid night and how much that would cost her now combined with the reality that in a few weeks’ time, she could be sentenced to go to jail, simply overwhelmed her.“Shh,” Sawyer coaxed when her sobs grew stronger rather than dying down. “It’s going to be ok.
