There hadn’t been many things she had feared in her life. Many she could list quite easily. The Guild was one, although she refused to admit this to her family. The prospect of falling in love with the wrong man and then making him her husband had haunted her dreams. She didn’t like elevators, large dogs, or the sound of loud bells, for example like ones found in a firehouse, which is why she never was a fan of firefighters. She also worried for the safety of her family, her nieces, and her nephew primarily but she had always been able to deal with these things.
Now today, she could add something else to her list of fears, Drake Delaney. It wasn’t the man himself she feared but it was more along the lines she was terrified of her strange and unexpected reaction to the way he’d given her
