Chapter 21The questions Zeff had proposed haunted me. What was best for me?
Channing left me alone when a car pulled into the driveway, strolling off with the excuse that she was checking if the exorbitant amount of lingerie she'd ordered was being delivered. It was apparent she was using it as an excuse, to give me time to examine my thoughts in peace.
The birch arbor provided a welcome sanctuary in which to scrutinize my feelings; somewhere to consider all I'd learned in the past few days and decide what I was going to do.
The pain of Caleb and Rafe's betrayal, which had struck with the force of a physical blow, was slowly fading. The numbness subsided until my capacity to think logically began to return. And think I did. The sunlight dappled the ground in a continually moving pattern
