“I find your silence disconcerting,” he teased. “I like it better when you’re blurting out everything that goes through your mind.” She laughed and leaned in to hug him. “Bet you wouldn’t have thought you’d feel that way when we first met.” He grinned at her, and she pressed her face to his shoulder to quell the quiver in her belly. “I have a question,” she confessed to his skin.

