Chapter 101

She tentatively set her trembling fingers on his open palms and swallowed the thickness in her throat.

“I know you have every reason to hate me—” he said.

“I don’t hate you, Daniel. I don’t—”

“Shh. Let me say this. I shouldn’t have made presumptions that day when my brother said those things about you. I shouldn’t have said what I said. I should have protected you. But instead I made everything worse. I’m so ashamed of the way I acted. You were hurt and worried, and I should have taken that burden from you. It was wrong, and I won’t let anything like that happen again, no matter where in the world you live.”

“I’ll live with you,” Emma said. She bit her lips to keep them from quivering. “If that’s what you want, I will come home with you.”

“Because you want to believe in me,” he said, nodding his head. “That&rsquo