Ella rang her boss and confirmed she’d be back at work in the morning. Although her body ached and her head pounded, she didn’t attempt to sleep now. If she did that, she’d never sleep tonight.
To ease the throb in her face, she took two more painkillers with a cup of mint tea, then attacked her laundry pile.
Disappointment sat like a sack of concrete on her shoulders, her weighty thoughts bearing down on her. She’d liked Dillon so much, and for him to turn away in the manner he had, irked her. She couldn’t decide whether to heed his unsubtle warning and move on with her life or square her shoulders, lift her chin and wade into battle.
Dillon Williams was a decent man. A worthy one. While he was also grumpy and bossy and slotted into alpha man territory, his desirable traits far outweig
