Chapter 144

• It made no sense, but that one light kiss had moved her in a way that no other man’s kisses had.
• Though that didn’t mean she had to act like a complete numbskull, she scolded herself. She’d always been very successful at masking her feelings, a trait that had helped her enormously when it came to dealing with difficulties in either her personal or professional life, and that was what she would do with Michael, at least until she got her newly awakened libido under control!
• Having succeeded in convincing herself that she’d been fretting over nothing, she pushed any remaining worries to the back of her mind, and, closing the heavy curtains to shut out the darkness pressing against the panes, set about unpacking.