Chapter 118 A Reward Of Tenderness

• I stood very still, confused and surprised both by the very presence of Julian’s lips on my cheek as well as the tenderness of the affection he was showing me.
• Julian had always struck me as something of a playboy, and while I understood that much of how he acted was an act, he never seemed to connect with any woman, in any relationship, beyond a fleeting fancy.
• In our school days, he strung along many hearts, leaving a trail of broken ones behind him. He never seemed to care about the mess he made of girls’ emotions.