Chapter 12
Life took on a brand new perspective after the night Spence came home late. Rebecca hadn’t been entirely proud of herself for practically jumping him when he asked her to stay in his bed, but seeing him smile, seeing him so close to his normal self, with the out-of-the-blue mood swings mostly gone, made him too tempting. She had just wanted to touch him as a woman, not as his nurse. His response pretty much clinched it.
He was more good-natured after that night, offering smiles and jokes far more often than before. The walls were down, too, any barriers she’d erected to give him the distance he needed now gone. Now there were touches when she was near, cuddling on the couch with his good arm around her shoulder as he watched television. She didn’t bother with any pretenses abo
