Chapter 1923

Liam cast a blank look at her before taking the towel and drying his face with it.

Then, he gently ruffled her hair. “Did I scare you back there?”

Caprice shook her head. “No.”

She was slightly startled, but not to the point of being scared.

Liam smiled faintly. “Sit down. Let me see your head.”

Caprice did as she was told and sat down on a nearby chair.

He delicately parted her hair with his slender fingers and studiously inspected the spot where she had just bumped her head when she was lurking outside the study.

Caprice pursed her lips into a thin smile and told him, “Liam, I’m fine. It doesn’t even hurt anymore.”

He seemed relieved. “Yeah.”

There was some slight redness, but there was no wound.

After watching him return to his usual demeanor, she asked, “What happened to you back there?”

looked like he wanted to devour her whole.

just… a common reaction from

reaction from a man? What was that

was left more

away and seemed to be

answers. She got

hand into hers, she smiled and gestured. “Here, let me show you the garden in the back. It looks very pretty now because

smiled and squeezed her

Time passed quickly.

had only been walking around the garden for a while when one of the housemaids had shown up and told them that her father was summoning them for

had no choice but to join them at the

was a fine

John, Sherry, and Madam Stockton.

with Caprice, he had to answer two urgent calls. Something had probably come up in Westchester that needed his attention.

go, she knew better than to get in the way of

in

his car and turned around to

nobody around, she

“I’ll be going now.”

and pecked the corner of his lips.

radiant smile.

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