Chapter 42

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," he said, looking genuinely apologetic.

I immediately turned my gaze away from him, staring at anything and everything except his face. The counter. The cabinets. The coffee maker. Anywhere but those eyes that had been looking at me so intensely last night.

"It's okay, just my reflexes," I said quickly, trying to sound normal and probably failing completely.

"How was your night?" he asked, and his voice sounded perfectly casual, like nothing had happened between us at all.

"Fine. Fine," I said way too quickly, trying to look busy with anything I could find.

There was a pause, and then he...