GRACE
Three days had sped by before I knew it, with a nervous feeling simmering underneath my stomach.
Was I giving in too easily? I wondered as I continued breezing in and out of my daily routines of going to work and taking Laurel to school. But then, Connor Shelby looked like a man who knew how to have his way every time.
One thing that bothered me most though, was what I was going to tell Laurel about who Connor was. Of course I didn’t plan to tell her who he ‘really’ was now, but she had never seen me with any male being serious at all.
So I explained to her that we were going to see the man who brought her back from school the other day, while I got her and myself ready that Saturday evening.
“Are we going to thank him?” she asked with an innocent confusion on her fa
