"Maybe I couldn't spend the night with my client because I was caught by a jealous housewife and narrowly escaped with my life still intact," Shantel fired back leaving Richard completely speechless.
Typical Shantel Hale. Always looking for a way to piss him off, perhaps to death.
But this wasn't just Shantel Hale, the woman he couldn't bear. She was Elsa, he reminded himself grimly just like he's been doing for the rest of the day since he left her at that restaurant.
And had not stopped reminding himself as he couldn't get his mind off that soul-stirring kiss they shared.
He was forced to remind himself again when he couldn't explain why his heart leaped the way it did when his people told him they had found where she lived.
He was forced to remind himself again as he left the safety and sanity of his house and drove out here where he didn't know for sure what he was getting himself into.
