Chapter 14
Matt stood at the bottom step of his porch and stared at the empty driveway as his skin buzzed. The taillights of his car turned down the street. Ashley had left. The street was empty and she wasn’t coming back to him.
His gut twisted.
He’d forced her to leave.
She loved him.
Why did the thought freeze him?
He hardly knew her.
Clearly she’d studied him carefully, but he’d been blind.
The late afternoon air had an unusual chill but didn’t soften the electric charge in his soul.
Part of him wanted to chase after the car that had already passed through his gates, but he was once again paralyzed with fear like he’d been when his father scolded him for living his life under the limelight of school plays.
The only emotion he understood in his soul was the joy that came from
