Silence.
Luther exhaled, running a hand down his face. “Claire…I'm sorry I just wanted to kiss you. It felt like the right thing to do at that moment.” His voice was strained, conflicted. He looked at her then, eyes dark with emotion. “But why are you telling me all this now?”
Claire let out a chuckle. The kiss still lingered on her mind. “Because I was too much of a coward to say it before. I was scared and I thought about how very wrong it was, even now it still is. Now that you're going to start a new stage of life, I summoned courage to tell you so I won't regret anything.”
Luther stared at her. “What do you mean by new stage of life?”
She swallowed hard. “Your engagement. You proposed to Lori, you're getting married.”
Luther stared at her in shock and burst into laughter. “I did
