Page 68 of Craved By the Mountain Man

I look at her.

She deserves the whole answer.

Not just the part that started with her.

“You were my best friend’s little sister. Off-limits.”

Her eyes stay on mine.

“And back then, I didn’t trust myself with anything that mattered.”

“That sounds like there’s a story behind it.”

“There is.”

I take a drink of coffee.

“My parents died when I was twenty.”

Her expression changes.

“Both?”

“Car wreck.”

“Gavin…”

“It was a long time ago.”

Doesn’t make it nothing.

I look down at my coffee.

“I was with someone then. Emma. We’d been together since high school.”

“You were serious.”

“Yeah.”

I rub my thumb along the side of the mug.

“After my parents died, I proposed.”

Hannah goes still.

“You were engaged?”

“For three weeks.”

“What happened?”

“Caught her in bed with my best friend.”

Her face changes.

“Your best friend?”

“Since we were kids.”