Chapter Twelve
Elise lay in bed on her back, hands laced behind her head, staring up through the skylight. Sleep wouldn’t come as her mind wandered over the kiss she and Noel had shared her first night here. Damn it all! She groaned in frustration. That man was certainly making an impact on her life and on her libido.
Just when she wanted to go back home, the vulnerability within him would make itself known to her. Pain and loneliness called to her without words, showing themselves only briefly in his blue eyes. Then there was the conversation she'd had with Maria.
The more she thought about it, the more she knew she had to stay. Although they had been here nearly a week now, and with no sign of Matt’s supposed healing gifts coming to the surface, she felt a need to stay just a bit long
