He flinched as though hurt by my comment. “This is your home too, Kate.” I nodded as I shifted on my feet. He stood up from the doorframe and folded his arms across his chest. “You wanted to talk?”
My breath caught as I found myself no longer wanting to confess my deep feelings for him with his friend roaming around the condo. I was assuming he would be occupying the room across the hallway from my own, and the last thing I wanted was to be interrupted in the middle of my confession. “It’s nothing,” I lied as I put on a fake smile for him. “We can talk later. I’m sure you want to catch up with your friend. I was actually going to ask if you would mind if I used your jacuzzi tub for a bit?”
Preston studied me with those all too intuitive green eyes which seemed to drill directly into my s
