In the car, there was silence but at least she looked better than in the morning. He was trying hard to make it up to her and she knew it but she was being herself, stubborn Annabelle Skye. He drove and stopped few blocks away from home, she looked at him with that questioning look and he said, "I thought I should render a proper apology to you. I should not have left like I did yesterday and I damn well should not have left you this morning. I know I could be a jerk but then I want you to know that this jerk is sorry about everything. Bells, you have had this effect on me, from the time I met you and I want to understand why. So let's let it be gone and start up again. Request anything you want and I'll do it,"he said as she listened. ''How about my freedom," she said with a playful sm