For one full week, it was going to be Luke, Tim, and Kelly. Without John and Cassie to diffuse Luke’s animosity toward her, Kelly feared it would be a long week. Kelly nearly crossed her fingers, hoping that after last night, Luke and she had finally crossed the imaginary line between them that made them so antagonistic toward each other. Maybe now, Luke finally got that she wasn’t coming on to him. He was so convinced she was some kind of man-eater, that anything she said or did toward him set off his bad temper. Maybe, finally, he got she wasn’t trying to take off his pants when she asked him to pass the salt.
Who could? When the man was so obviously in daily agony over his dead wife? She wished that Luke would just see that she liked him, and liked antagonizing him because he was so na
