“This wasn’t what I was expecting,” Roxie confessed, her tone full of confusion as she stared at the bookstore in front of her.
Her brows pinched in a frown, and she turned to Mitch. “This is supposed to be life-changing?” she asked, more than a touch of disappointment weighing her shoulders down. Seriously, where was the spontaneous excitement? Wasn’t that what the man always gave her? Roxie couldn’t see how a bookstore was supposed to make her laugh and forget her life.
Mitch wasn’t deterred by her obvious lack of enthusiasm, though. No. The man smiled, wordlessly placed a hand on the small of her back, and led her to the front door. The electric feel of his touch, even with all the layers of fabric, distracted Roxie enough that it took her a moment to notice that the inside of the bo
