She pulled away to look into his hazel eyes. “I’m fine, thank you.” If she had to guess, she’d wager he wasn’t the only one who’d wanted to come and check on her welfare but that the others had elected to send him. Perhaps there’d been a game of some sort to decide, and Jate had been the winner. “My new lady has arrived.”
“I met her. She seems... nice.”
“What does that mean?” Kit c****d an eyebrow at him, ready to argue.
“Nothing. Nothing at all. Only that she was polite when I introduced myself to her in the doorway. What’s the matter, Kit? Do you not like her?”
Trailing her fingers across his muscular shoulders, Kit took a deep breath. She knew she could tell Jate anything and he wouldn’t judge her. He’d kept an awfully important secret from everyone, after all, and only she knew the
