Chapter 1
A knock rattled the front door. Probably some lost salesperson. Whoever it was, I would tell them to go away. I can’t buy a rain gutter system or a new vacuum if I’m still struggling to pay my dad’s hospital bills. I pulled the door open and my heartbeat raced at the sight on the other side.
Jake Sutherland stood on my porch, his hands buried in dark denim pockets. He locked his stormy blue eyes onto mine and parted his lips. “Hey.”
That’s it? Just ‘hey’? After all that happened between us last night—the nagging arousal, the fierce disagreement, the threat to take me into his bed, he only has that one word? I swallowed. “What are you doing here?”
He penetrated my eyes so intensely that I had to look elsewhere. “Came to see you, Chloe. And to apologize.”
Rage thundered throug
