Chapter 5
Clara tapped her fingers on the steering wheel, singing, as she pulled into Asher’s driveway. At the sight of his house, her nerves resurfaced as she parked alongside his pickup truck. The confident air she had built up in the SUV on her way over quickly dispersed, leaving her sitting there with a death grip on the wheel. The radio cut from music to a commercial. Since when did she find Asher’s house intimidating? She’d been inside a handful of times to tend the ranch’s dogs.
Work. It always boiled down to work.
What had happened to her social life?
An electric sparked buzzed through her body as she shut off the engine and shoved the keys in her pocket. Nerves be darned, she figured; she’d been hiding too long, trying to keep herself safe from potential heartbreak. If she kep
