“Was that it then?” She didn’t want to remain if he was going to keep acting hostile towards her.
“There’s one more thing,” he continued, with a hint of the first smile she had seen in days.
She gulped, unsure if she should trust that smile.
“And that would be?”
He stood up and walked to the other side of the desk, trailing his fingers over the wood. She imagined his fingers trailing over her skin in a similar fashion.
“You seemed surprised when I told you about the car accident.”
“Is that the question?” She knew where he was going with this already, but she was staling. She wasn’t ready to confess all to him, though just this afternoon she was ready to throw caution to the wind.
“No,” He chuckled as he sat on the edge of his desk, looking down at her. “If you didn’t know about the
