When She's Wary (Risdaverse, #11)

by Ruby Dixon

“I’m scared,” she says in a suddenly vulnerable voice. “I think I’m trying to pick a fight because I like you too much.”

I freaked myself out, thinking I’d drive him away, because for some reason I’ve gotten it into my head that things between us have to be hard. That life has to be miserable.

It’s like part of me is still holding him at bay, afraid I’ll get hurt.