Melody
Ben was going to kiss me, I knew he was. He wanted to, at the front porch, and almost did when we were alone in my bedroom. Damn his sense of honor!
I was awake the whole time, but I knew if I opened my eyes, Ben would set me down and go back to being Mr. Davenport, Charlie and Lottie’s dad. I almost broke character when Nancy fainted in distress upon seeing me “unconscious,” but honestly, she needs to get a grip. The lady is way too uptight. We’re talking about dropping dead from an aneurysm at twenty-nine. She needs to chill.
I knew she was going to be okay because Mrs. Davenport was with her and Ben didn’t seem too worried, either. He was a corpsman in the reserves of the Royal Marines and actually served a tour in Afghanistan, so he tended to injuries and wounds on the frontl
