She was still trying to calm her racing heart after his whisper, the warmth of his fingers still lingering faintly beneath her chin, when he let out a breath and stepped back, raking his hand through his hair with a frustrated exhale.
“I shouldn’t have said those things to you that night,” he muttered, his voice sounding a little rough, “I was angry, not at you, just angry.”
She blinked, surprised at his shift in tone.
He hesitated, then glanced away, his hand dropping to his side.
“One of my senior staff members ran off with over twenty million in company funds,” he said, finally,“It happened the same day I came home and saw you waiting for me.”
Her eyes widened instantly and she threw a shocked hand over her mouth, “twenty million?” She thought her eyes were going to pop out of thei
