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

“It’s just…

common reaction from a man? What was that supposed

was left

walking away and seemed to

answers. She got up and followed him.

show you the garden in the back.

squeezed her hand gently.

Time passed quickly.

a while when one of the housemaids had shown up and told them that her father was summoning

no choice but to join them at the

a

John, Sherry, and Madam Stockton. With that,

he was spending time in the garden with Caprice, he had to answer two urgent calls. Something had probably come up in Westchester that needed

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

in its

to his car and turned around

was nobody around, she plunged into his arms.

hair. “I’ll be going

then she raised herself on her tiptoes and pecked the corner of his lips. She

returned a radiant smile.

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