Chapter 108

“Kit, calm down!” Eli insisted. He reached for her, but she dodged him, suddenly not wanting to have his hands on her. He slipped himself back inside of his breeches. “Kit, take some deep breaths!”

“No!” she screamed at him, folding her knees up in front of her chest protectively. She knew he had no intention of hurting her or forcing something she didn’t want, but the idea that he’d been inside of her before, all those years ago, and never told her, seemed like a betrayal of a sort she could never even put words to. “Why didn’t you tell me?”