An Unexpected Apology

Clara

I scrub the food from my body as steaming water pours down around me in a blissful cascade. A hot shower is exactly what I needed, but I feel like a silly school girl starcrossed in puppy love. I can’t stop replaying the events in the kitchen in my mind, reliving every word, every touch – every look from Thorne’s penetrating green eyes.

I find myself running my hands over my bare skin in th