Chapter 2057

Catching her reaction, Zachary leaned in until the warmth of his breath stirred a lock of her hair.

"Really?" he murmured, the single word carrying both teasing mischief and quiet

reassurance.

His brow arched with playful concern. "Then why is your face so red?"

Startled, Vivian sprang to her feet and turned her back before the darkness could betray the bloom spreading over her skin.

"It's probably too warm in here," she insisted, voice a notch too quick. "The heat's cranked up I'll lower it."

She padded over to the thermostat, fingers fumbling with the dial.

Zachary trailed after her, gentle concern dusting his tone. "Easy now-take it slow, there's no rush."

For reasons she could not name, Vivian's heart drummed hard and erratic against her ribs.

"Mm, I'm not in a hurry," she shot back, obstinacy trying-and failing to mask her fluster.

Zachary saw straight through the pretense, responding with nothing more than a quiet, knowing smile.

set the temperature lower, turned,

room now, but the fragile truce involved separate beds

shrugged off her jacket, and burrowed beneath the


further.

young, sleep refused to come. Vivian's restless turning scraped softly against the darkness,

Zachary's voice drifted across the shadowed

well. After a pause, she answered, "Yeah,

company," he offered. "People say the middle months

Vivian released a muted sigh. "Then

did not come easily to him. He simply resolved to help her in every ordinary way-meals, rest, and

murmured another assent and, almost without noticing, let conversation bloom between them beneath the faint glow of the

her tone casual but her eyes

his elbows on

in a pretty rough spot. She' sharing a ward with a patient who's legitimately unstable. That's about

stillness. The calm, almost indifferent way Zachary

conclusively-that his heart hoolnet


name, the realization loosened

on, words growing softer, sentences fading like embers. Before either of them realized, Vivian's eyelids fluttered

silence answered back, he turned and discovered her breathing

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