Luckily, Kate had managed to convince the officers not to press charges. She didn’t know what she had done. He imagined that Crichton, deep down, was furious that Jesse wasn’t going back to jail, but Jesse figured that he would never find out.
What about Kate?
Would she go back to Cooper’s Mill and leave him in New York? Would he leave New York and his refound life to go back with her? Did she even want him to? Was she interested, or had it just been a spur of the moment kiss?
That kiss…
Jesse was no stranger to women. He’d had girlfriends over the years—but thinking on it, he honestly couldn’t remember the last time he’d been with another woman, or even had any interest in one. He realized his life had been the Forest—for better or for worse.
He sat outside and just watched th
