Chapter 10
ROSALYN
After heading to the check-out counter and embarrassingly asking the clerk to deliver all the decorations I placed in my cart, my hands are shaking by the time I reach the outside of the store.
I feel my nerve-endings in my legs. Each trembling and kind of weak.
Only Chris catches up behind me and gently seizes my upper arm.
“Hey...” he says with a hint of concern. “What’s wrong? You okay?”
Letting him completely hold me, I gaze up at him. The set of his forehead is troubled, and his eyes pierce into mine as I breathe hard. “I don’t feel well. I really don’t. Maybe I should go back to my hotel room.”
“Oh,” he says, concern in his eyes. My body feels so small in his arms, and his gigantic body is warm as it caresses me.
“We’re making a lot of progress on these wed
