CHAPTER SIXTEEN
How can anyone be so terribly brave and terribly frightened at the same time?
She escaped to her woods after a horrific incident and never came back to town. I’d taken to thinking of her as my little wild thing, and I definitely wanted to tame her, but on her own terms.
We walked to my place, which was a few blocks off Main Street, and I could hear the incessant jangle of a tractor somewhere off in the dairy fields, relentless and persistent as my desire for Mia, which was pounding like a machine throughout my entire body.
I noticed her touching her security blanket, the shoulder harness strapped to her side, while she swiveled her head to look all around and even behind us. “We’re here.” I swooped my arm at the two-story, brick building in front of us. “I got this plac
