“Wait here for a minute.” Nicolette said, shutting the door in Colton’s scruffy, square-jawed face.
Somehow, he managed to make scruff and a baseball cap pulled low over his eyes attractive. It was unfair really, if she’d turned up at his place looking like a hobo in gray sweats and a black hoodie, she’d probably have been arrested. Then again, he was a famous movie star - and she was a librarian who moonlit as a writer.
Lettie sighed, leaning against the door so that her weak knees didn’t have to bear the full weight of her body for a few moments as she caught her breath.
He missed her.
The way he’d looked at her when he said it, like he was afraid she wouldn’t feel the same, was equal parts infuriating and heartbreaking. Because she did miss him, even after everything, even with th
