Chapter 2
He could hear her upstairs. The floor was creaking as she walked, so, knowing his older house as well as he did, he knew exactly where Kate was at that moment. He listened to the squeak of the pipes and knew she was now running a bath, a bath he should have been sharing with her.
The fact was that Walker was fit to be tied. He couldn’t believe Kate had calmly strung him along and now wasn’t giving him an answer when he had expected her to be jumping up and down, accepting his proposal. Granted, now that he had time to think about it, he could have handled it better instead of dumping the ring in front of her and expecting her to just pop it on her finger and say yes without him having to utter a word.
Okay, so he’d caved and gotten down on one knee. He’d seen the way she’d fre
