27
ASHTON
The damn indigestion had attacked again after we finished eating, but I focused on their murmurs from the kitchen where I cleaned up. Even uncomfortable, I grinned nonstop over the fact that Rhett’s walls had thinned out since his arrival home. A burst of laughter at our dancing? Rarer than a unicorn in real life. No frowns or curls of his nose happened over Sky’s silly chatter, and he’d offered her a compliment rather than dismissal when she admitted to her inability to run a business.
Hope seemed to keep my spirit buoyed, and I felt like my feet hovered over the floor while washing the dishes.
Rhett had told me he wasn’t against being seduced, exactly as Sky and I had planned, but what if he’d only meant by me?
Sky mentioned earlier in the day that Rhett had seen her inten
