Chapter 23

• Kelsey didn’t know how much time went by until she couldn’t cry any more, and then she just stood there feeling completely drained. Her cheek stuck to his wet shirt. “No one told me you were ordered not to tell me.” She leaned back and looked up at him. “Why wouldn’t you guys tell me that instead of letting me think otherwise?”
• Lifting his shirt, he wiped her cheeks off with it and gave her a grieved look. “We’re just dumb males, sweetie, who knows why we do half the crazy shit we do.”
• She smiled, she couldn’t help it. Inhaling, she stopped when a strange smell came to her. It was nothing like she’d smelled before, wholly masculine but unusual. Leaning forward she fought back her embarrassment and sniffed at Blair’s neck. He stiffened, his hands sliding slowly down her arms and then gradually dropping away. “Um…” she looked up at him again, his pale blues eyes watching her cautiously. “Why can I smell you?”