COLTON
I stood behind Ann, wondering what had caused her sudden change in mood and behavior.
Had I said something wrong to her?
Or had she misread my words for something else?
The moment she had gotten up from the tub and turned her back to me, I had felt a sudden stab of fear in my heart. Where that had come from, I couldn’t tell. All I wanted was to make her go back to the way she was earlier.
Was it the comment I had made about her hair?
I had been staring at her when I had noticed that there was a slight difference to the way she looked and it hadn’t taken me long to figure out that it was her hair. It was lighter, way lighter than it was when I had first met her. And looking at her in the tub then, I had felt a sudden sense of familiarity towards her, but it had been gone in a
