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River’s broad shoulders moved up and down in a quick shrug. “It’s fine. I get it. You’re not interested.”

But Edith was. She was more interested than she’d ever been before. But she couldn’t admit that now. He might reach for her again. He might kiss her.

Then she opened her mouth because she wanted him to touch her, to kiss her...

But he reached for a broom instead and began sweeping up the shards of the vase she’d dropped. “You seem a little rattled,” he remarked. “Had you been hearing anything else before I showed up?”

“What do you mean?” she asked.

“Any of those weird noises again?” he asked. “Like the clanging or the footsteps on the stairs?”

She shook her head. She almost wished she would have; it would have distracted her from thinking about him, from obsessing about him, about how passionately he’d kissed her, about how he’d carried her up those stairs...

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The Coltons of Shadow Creek: Only family can keep you safe...