Chapter 14

• Emma shook her head in disgust as she paced by the door once more. She’d been doing it for fifteen minutes now and wasn’t at all happy that this was something she now did. For almost two weeks she waited for dusk each night and waited until Bryce was here. In all the years since she’d become an adult, she’d never felt like this. They had talked about every topic either of them could come up with, they walked sometimes, and when they needed nothing more than quiet company they would watch a movie on her laptop and cuddle on the couch.
• It was the strangest thing ever for her, to be this way. He made her laugh and feel like she was important—that was a whole new thing too. The few times they had talked about what would happen if he didn’t come back had upset her so much she would change the subject.
• She hadn’t slept with him and that was shocking too. It wasn’t from lack of opportunity or wanting to either. Every time they touched or kissed both of them were engulfed in flames and a few times they had to literally move away from each other to stop. As often as Bryce joked about getting her in bed, he seemed to sense she wasn’t quite ready to take it that far.