Chapter 108

---- Chapter 108 Grace ended the call abruptly.

Only a fool like Alice would look at a guy like Yancey and think he was worth anything.

She turned to head back to Ethan's bedroom , but the lights were off.

For a moment, she considered leaving and finding some other place to crash for the night, but then the breeze from the balcony swept in.

That was when she realized Ethan wasn't in bed.

He was out there, standing in the dark.

She didn't have to get close to smell the cigarette smoke.

"Mr.

Henderson, isn't smoking bad for your recovery?" Wasn't his injury still healing? The faint glow from the yard made it hard to read his expression, but Grace could still see the intensity in his eyes something raw and expectant, something that got to her.

Maybe visiting Eleanor's grave had put him in a somber mood. She stayed beside him, unsure of what to say.

carried himself like a breezethere one moment, gone the next, but leaving an

the cigarette

going to burn yourself," she said

slowly flicked the cigarette into the ashtray , his eyes ----

damage was

red welt marked his

thinking, Grace grabbed his wrist and blew

around? Do you have burn ointment? I'll go get it." Due to

pull away, but

"Mr.

through your head, but

touch with an

than he asked, "Do you treat everyone this well?"

regained consciousness, Ethan's

It wasn't exactly resentment.

his

over her as long as

had even cared for her when she got her

could come up with a response, he had

said before heading back

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