CHAPTER 17

          The next morning, Sparkle didn’t see Kaleb at all, and maybe that was just as well. She’d lain awake most of the night, reliving the whole scene, though she could admit to herself she spent more time reliving the kiss and the feel of his amazingly talented fingers on her body than the argument that had prompted it.

          Even now, though, Sparkle cringed a little remembering how she’d thrown the truth of his past at him out of nowhere. Honestly, what had she been thinking, just blurting out the fact that she knew about his family?

          As always, she hadn’t been thinking at all… that was the problem. Sparkle had stared into those amazing eyes of his and had seen him shuttered away, closing himself off, and it had just made her so angry, she’d confronted him without considering what