Chapter 14

“Yeah that’s right,” he replied carelessly. “And because of what you felt for me — what we felt for each other. When I came near you, you felt an excitement so intense that you ceased to breathe — like you are feeling right now. You wanted me just as much as I wanted you. And that should have been enough to make you stay.”

He looked so angry. Katherine thought. The look wasn’t just in his eyes. It seeped through every shrug, every curl of lips she thought were the most perfectly created set of lips on earth.

She looked deeper, pathetically desperate to find something else. Something more. A reminder of those semi carefree years when they would walk together, talk about anything for hours, and resume conversations the moment they saw one another again.

But the man she knew had been replaced by a harder, edgier version of a Jensen Packard. Maybe it really was a bad idea coming to see him.

He grimaced and for s