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“Did I frighten you?” Jack asked gently, cursing himself and his odd, compelling need to be near her.

“It’s okay.” She touched his arm—a quick, light touch, but it was enough to send a jolt through him. Just like before.

Staring at her, he wondered if she’d felt it, too.

“I saw you were out for a walk. Since I am, too, I thought I’d ask if you minded if I joined you.” He smiled at her, wondering why she didn’t smile back. They’d agreed to be friends, after all.

“We can’t hold hands,” she blurted, her face turning a becoming shade of pink. “I have to apologize for that before. I don’t know what I was thinking. I never should have...”

“It’s okay.” Interrupting her before he did something even worse, like kiss her, he hid his smile. “You’re a good person, Sophia Hannah. You didn’t do anything wrong.”

If anything, his praise made her blush even harder.

She muttered something under her breath that sounded like “If you only knew.”