♥ Chloe ♥
The day had been perfect. Perfectly unexpected. Although, I wasn’t entirely sure what I had expected. Jethro seemed so down-to-earth. The cold, distant man I had met wasn’t as cold or as distant as I had first thought. He was merely guarded. And who could blame him? From breakfast on the patio to the quiet hours by the lake, everything about this weekend so far felt like it belonged in another life. A better one. A quieter one. One where I wasn’t always looking over my shoulder or waiting for the other shoe to drop. But the icing on the cake, for me, was the fact that Jethro had let his guard down. I saw it in his eyes when he talked about Sara, Heather, and even Juliette. He didn’t try to hide who he was. Or who he had been. And the more he spoke, the more I realized that he di
