CHAPTER 56
Scott had spent nearly the past year wondering what it would be like to sit across from Susannah at a restaurant and watch her eat.
Now, after months of impatient waiting and painful separation, he finally knew. She had a little dimple in her cheek. He had noticed it in her senior picture but couldn’t have guessed the way it became more pronounced when she chewed. Her hair was even softer than he’d imagined. It took all his self-possession not to reach out and stroke it.
He was lost in her eyes, the gentle beauty that flowed from her expression, the tenderness that graced every move she made.
She caught him staring and paused with her fork in the air. “What do you keep looking at?”
“You.”
She blushed deeply, and he loved her for it.
“I could watch you eat every day of my
