Malcolm’s acknowledgement of her feelings calmed her anxiety. Suddenly she was no longer pissed at him or hurt by his behaviour, and he was no longer angered by her rejection of his gifts. With a mutual understanding of the other’s feelings, they now saw things for what it was – the distance between them was too great. Not just the physical distance but the emotional distance as well.
Malcolm begrudgingly realized that because of his inexperience dealing with a woman as pure as Venus, he’d coloured her with the same brush as his previous lovers. That miscalculation had resulted in him making a lot of assumptions and inevitable mistakes with her. And he couldn’t even justify or excuse his actions because, from the inception, he’d known she wasn’t like any other person he’d ever met. Yet h
