Chapter 15
Sunday, October 5, 2014
12:30 a.m.
“I began to fear you intended to stay in your room for the entire night.”
Hannah started and paused at the top of the extravagant red copper stairs. She had indeed planned to seethe in anger and self-pity the whole night. But after the tears of rage and humiliation ebbed away, she calmed down and conceded that he had come out in her defense against his own father and had tried to talk to her. She was misdirecting her anger, and Hannah was not one to be churlish, much less, unfair.
Then without warning, her rotten mood slid away and she decided to venture outside. Only to find he had been waiting for her. Well, that’s thoughtful. Sweet, even. And for some reason it touched her more than was reasonable.
She tried to reason with her reasonin
