Chapter 169

“I can’t believe she’s really here ... that’s she’s real. The times I have dreamed of seeing her again.” He whispers it, that sexy voice low and rough, alerting me that he’s aware I’m beside him after all, and I relax into the seat, propping my feet up on the bar and leaning towards him slightly. I am suddenly consumed with fierce protectiveness over him when he seems this vulnerable. “I’m just glad that we got her here. That you came when I found her.” What else can I say? Nothing I can add right now will ease the tension as we wait, and he knows everything I do about all of this. “How could he do this to her? How could he not love her the way he was supposed to?” His eyes run back to her face, once again strokes her hair, and he’s so lost in his feelings that he overlooks my sarcastic eyebrow lift and tilted chin gesture I give him. That’s an excellent question, Colton. You might know, given you clearly have the same flaws! Why couldn’t you? I shake it out of my head before he senses