Chapter 43

• Nicholas frowned down at her. "Care?"
• "Nicholas, would you mind giving me some time to freshen up?" she asked as she looked up at him. "This last couple of days, traveling up to Texas and then getting stranded in the snow, has been quite hard."
• Hard? That wasn’t quite the description that Nicholas would have used concerning the last two days. But perhaps to Caroline, forced by circumstances into such close proximity with him, that was exactly what it had been. Perhaps he shouldn’t have brought her to Texas with him at all.