Читать книгу Hired by the Brooding Billionaire - Kandy Shepherd - Страница 2

Something deep and long unused inside him had turned upside down in the face of her grief.

To comfort her became more important than the inhibitions he had imposed upon himself.

He reached out and clasped her hand in his. It was slender and warm but he felt calluses on her palm and fingers. Warrior calluses.

She returned the pressure on his hand, not knowing what a monumental gesture it was for him to reach out to her. For a very long moment his eyes met with hers in a silent connection that shook him. What he felt for her in this moment went way beyond physical attraction.

In the quiet of his kitchen, with the ticking of the clock and the occasional whirring of the fridge the only noise, this one room of many in the vast emptiness of his house suddenly seemed welcoming. Because she was here.