“Because you belong here with your family. And with me…I hope.”
For a moment, she didn’t speak. However, Will could sense her silence came from an attempt to gather her thoughts rather than a rejection of him.
Then she said, “I want to be with you. This is all new, I know, but still….” The words faded away, and he could feel her let out a sigh of her own. “I don’t think I’m what anyone expects from a minister’s girlfriend. And that’s ignoring the whole half-demon father issue.”
He’d noticed how she’d carefully said “girlfriend” rather than wife. Yes, it was probably far too soon to be thinking about things like that, and yet he knew he’d already fantasized about sharing that kind of a future with her. And if she was starting to worry about how people would regard her if she became a mor
