Chapter Twenty-Two
Chase had been gone for three hours, having been up at the c***k of dawn. Rose had heard him rattling downstairs in the kitchen. She hadn’t climbed out of bed because she was having a hard time looking at him, considering what Billy Jo had said. Of course he was attractive, easy on the eyes, and his body was one any girl could have appreciated. He was kind, thoughtful, and he’d turned his life upside down to help a kid he didn’t even know when no one else could or would have stepped up.
She’d told him about Travis. Yes, she trusted him, and yes, she wanted him, something she hadn’t admitted even to herself. Now it was out there, even though it wasn’t.
Having Billy Jo point out the attraction between them had been awkward, and worse was the fact that she had feelings f
