Chapter Sixteen
It was for the best. Ethan knew that. Literally two days after his engagement had ended, he had no business getting involved with someone else.
And he and Jessica had no business being together anyway.
Well, they had business. Investigative business. Best to keep it that way.
But that kiss…it was no exaggeration at all to say that it had shaken him down to the soles of his borrowed hiking boots. Her lips were so soft and wondering…as if every moment of contact was a step into a magical new world. Jessica saw magic everywhere, even in him. And while they’d kissed, he could almost imagine he saw it too.
It was intoxicating.
He shifted his head on his makeshift pillow, which was nothing but a fleece jacket rolled up under his head. Outside the reinforced nylon of the ten
