Chapter Nineteen
What had she been thinking? She was staring into the face of the man who’d walked out on her the night before, all because she’d never been with a man. It was humiliating, and she had cried after he left as if her heart was splitting in two. It had taken until this morning for her to realize that not only did he want her, but also she needed to stop assuming that she knew everything about people’s motives and instead find out why Ben had pushed her away.
The wild expression on his face now as he held the door, the other hand clutching the blanket, made her consider taking a step back, then another, until she was running the other way, but she chalked it up to lack of sleep and frustration. Everything she’d been unable to face for so long was bursting from her, and she wa
