Elizabeth stepped back clumsily and laughed nervously.
Sawyer could tell that his comment had caught her off guard, and she was clearly retreating because she was feeling a little flustered by it and unable to respond.
He moved closer to her, and her heart raced until she realized he was only stepping to the side so that he wasn’t blocking the staircase anymore.
“I need to go and take the food off the stove,” she muttered as she hurried past him and practically flew down the stairs.
He knew better than to follow her this time.
There was no point trying to push her into a conversation that she had been avoiding for a long time, and she had not expected him to say it as plainly as that, even though she knew he had been thinking it for a while.
Hearing him suggest that she actually try
