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“What? That you love him?” Elizabeth tilts her head. “Why?”
“Because…” I can’t find an excuse. “I just can’t.”
“You’re worried about the way you started?”
I stare at my feet. “I’m worried at the way we’ll end.”
Elizabeth’s voice is gentle. “As someone who married and then fell in love with her husband, I can tell you that what you’re feeling is completely normal. It’s very confusing to figure out what’s going on between you when you’ve done things out of order. But trust me.” Elizabeth squeezes my shoulder. “If he’s a good man, it’s worth it.”
Her eyes sparkle.
She’s a woman in love.
They both are.
I look in the mirror and see the same glow on my face.
I cup my cheek as I murmur, “I’m… in love with Hansley?”
Both ladies just watch me as I make the slow, painfully obvious revelation about three days too late.
“I’m in love with Hansley,” I say again.
This time it isn’t a question.
“I’m in love with my husband!” My voice climbs. I let out a strangled, desperate laugh.
Holy crap.
Twenty-Eight
Hansley
Asia descends the stairs and my heart stops beating.
It just plops right out of my chest.
Flops to the ground.
Rolls right up to her silver sandals and the toes that are painted a bright, sexy red.
I can’t breathe.
No woman should be this beautiful.
It should be freaking illegal.
My eyes slide up her legs. The dress hits her past her knees and there’s zero cleavage showing, but Asia doesn’t need to expose it all to be sexy.
Just the way those curves dip in that gown—
Just the hint of skin she’s revealing through the mesh cut-out at the bust—
“What do you think?” She descends the stairs.
My eyes bug when I see that, for all it’s modesty in the front, the dress dips all the way down to her tailbone at the back.
My pants tighten on sight.
