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.

like a breezethere one moment, gone the next, but leaving an impression that

cigarette just

going to burn yourself," she

the ashtray , his eyes ---- still

the damage was

red welt

Grace grabbed his wrist and blew

you have burn ointment? I'll go get it." Due to the difference in their height, she had to tilt her head up

and tried to pull away, but

"Mr.

I don't know what's going through your head, but you can't keep

in touch with an alternative medicine practitioner and find something

mouth than he asked, "Do you

regained consciousness, Ethan's behavior toward her had been

It wasn't exactly resentment.

had his

over her as long as

she got her period, which was more than

a response, he

before

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