Chapter 23

• She blinked. “You kissed me to—” It was an explanation, but not one that explained the raw driving need she had glimpsed in his face.
• “I kissed you because you weren’t listening.”
• It did not seem necessary to add that he had wanted to kiss her, that the idea of doing so had been growing all day until it had become a constant distraction. It had been a two birds with one stone situation—satisfy his curiosity and remove the distraction.