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"Yeah, but why did you suddenly stop the car?"

Grayson didn't respond right away. His piercing gaze was fixed on mine, and the intensity of it made me nervous. I averted my eyes when I realized how long he

had been staring.

"G-Grayson, wha-"

Before I could finish, he reached out and grabbed my hand, his sudden action making me freeze.

"Yes, you're right," he said softly. "I was looking for you. But you weren't in your pack."

I slowly looked back at him, confusion and curiosity swirling in my mind. "What made you search for

me?"

Instead of answering right away, his eyes dropped to our joined hands. His thumb began to move in slow, deliberate circles across the back of my hand, sending a strange, tickling sensation through me.

I tried to pull my hand away, but his grip tightened, keeping it firmly in his grasp. "Grayson," I said, my voice firm but not harsh.

tone calm but tinged with something deeper, "after that night at the club, I couldn't stop thinking about you. I wanted to see you

have a

was calm, yet there was something intense in the way he spoke. His brows furrowed

sentence.

an effortless charm. He carried himself with ease, and I knew it was the kind of presence that

Women would practically swoon over him, yet I

couldn't afford to think

of two. My children weren't with me, but I still lived for them. My life wasn't my own anymore, and I had no right to even consider the possibility of

someone new.

of his grasp. "I think we should head to my

face. He slowly withdrew his hand and gave a

car, and

almost suffocating. I kept sneaking glances at him, noticing

what could

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knew what he was implying earlier. He was a charming, successful doctor and the most eligible bachelor anyone could imagine. And me? I was a divorced woman with a complicated past and

wasn't fit for

allow myself to feel anything for him—or anyone else, for that matter. I was terrified of opening myself up again. Terrified of trusting. Terrified

the car stopped in front of my house, I noticed him stay seated, unmoving.

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