Chapter 6
KENNEDY’S HEART BEAT SO hard and fast, she wondered she didn’t just bleed out from the pain of seeing him look at her with all that guilt and shame. She’d been prepared for him to hate her. Ready for him to rail and rant and curse her for slinking off in the middle of the night without a word. She deserved all of that and more. But he thought he was why she’d left. All these years, he’d thought it was because of that stupid fight. She’d barely even remembered it. Why would she, given what came after? But clearly he remembered, and he blamed himself.
The absolute wrongness of that had her stepping into him before she could think better of it, laying a hand over his heart. “Xander, I—” But what could she say to allay his fears? She couldn’t tell him the truth, and she didn’t want
