Chapter Fifteen He walked from the Lovejoy loveless, a broken heart cracking in two. As ephemeral as the wind, she was. He’d told himself a hundred times to trust nothing in the relationship, because he didn’t know her, and she didn’t know him. That was hardly a comfort now. He wandered the neighborhood for nearly a half hour before finding his car and climbing in. He had nowhere to go, the afternoon he’d planned with Paige cut short. It felt as if his life were cut short too. The hurt and melancholy settled so deep, he was thinking of Kate again, yearning for her, craving her body and soul more than he had in weeks. She would have had a ready answer to his woe, she would have had a way to soothe him. God, what a silly thought, he reminded himself, thinking of Kate comforting him as he