“What I’m asking you is, have you ever been in love, pretty lady? The real kind. The deep kind.” “Our kind,” I finished for him. “Yes.” My heart pounded against my chest. “Then, you’d understand when I tell you how sorry I am for ever jeopardizing that love.” Nodding, I answered him. “I meant your heart no harm.” I tried blinking away the tears, but they fell anyway. The pain in his eyes was as evident as the pain in my heart. There was no way of hiding it. “I meant you no harm.”
