Chapter 18
“Hello”
“You came.”
“I did.”
“And you brought the girls.”
“They insisted. You know how they can be.”
“Why?”
“I think they have just told you.”
Fair enough, but she wasn’t going to give in that easily. “Why?”
He paused and took a deep breath, as he lowered his head, as if in shame. Good. He should be ashamed. “Because I missed you. Because the girls did. Because I was going to come after you anyway, the moment I woke up and heard you were gone. The moment I read that letter you left me. I knew I would come to get you. Because you are mine, and Southwell is where you belong. My home is your home.”
Her throat clogged, she swallowed. “And?”
He stepped closer, she stepped back. He was already to close, muddling her brain, making her unable to think straight, heightening he
