Chapter 43

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," he said, looking genuinely apologetic.

I immediately turned my gaze away from him, staring at anything and everything except his face. The counter. The cabinets. The coffee maker. Anywhere but those eyes that had been looking at me so intensely last night.

"It's okay, just my reflexes," I said quickly, trying to sound normal and probably failing completel