"She wasn't stealing this time, though. The owner remembered her from a previous time when she stole something. She wasn't thinking and it was stupid of her to return to the same location."

"Well, now the charges have been dropped, KYOLINE."

She cannot believe that he spent an entire boutique. Her mouth comes open, and she cannot think of words to protest it all. But the expression she sees on his dark eyes makes her dry off at the mouth before even words can form.

His hand cups her face, his thumb rubbing the apple of her cheek. "You, the baby, your brothers and sister. You're his family. And he'll...