Ugh, how did she go about explaining something that made no sense to her either?
She’d been alone for so long—empty inside, apart from everyone, a single entity, only able to connect to the world through her work. Even then, she’d alienated people with her anal-retentive nature and had been unable to stop herself from making it worse.
Then, to walk into a cubicle as she’d done hundreds of times that day and to come face to face with someone who made the cold deep inside her start to warm up… Well, it was like a miracle. The man on the gurney had sped up the process. A small kernel of heat was currently buzzing away inside her core, not simply s****l in nature, but more importantly, emotional.
In less than an hour, they’d done what no one else had managed to do since her parents’ deaths.
