What happened was... damn this is hard."

"Thorn. Just tell me. I can take it."

Thorn pulled back and started pacing the floor, running his hand through his hair. He went to the other side of the island, knowing if he didn’t get some distance between them, he would take her in his arms before she ever had the chance to forgive him. Making more a mess of things than there already was, if he did. It was already taking everything in him not to want to have her in his arms, to begin with.

“That week something wasn’t right. I could feel it. Every time I went to the...