5
Celia spent her entire time in the shower fantasizing about Carter. She still couldn’t believe she was here with him, and yet she was hesitant about everything. She wanted him like crazy, but she was afraid. Not of him, but of what happened next. What if she learned she couldn’t live without him? What if she decided to abandon everything she’d arranged, just for him? She would lose everything, and Matthew’s future would be in jeopardy.
But the idea of living a life without knowing love, if only for a little while, was just as unbearable. She couldn’t resist him, not for long, not in this sunny, seductive place so far from home. She didn’t want to resist him. It was why she’d come here, after all.
“Stop being so silly,” she told her reflection in the bathroom mirror. She could do this.
