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CHAPTER 136

AJ walked away to try a sense of balance.

Cord chased her down. “You’re damn lucky it didn’t happen to you and you weren’t here last night.”

“Maybe if I had been I could’ve saved something. Picture albums. Letters. My great grandmother’s tatting. Anything.”

“Goddammit, AJ. Look at me.” He grabbed her arm. “None of that shit is more important than your life.”

She jerked back. “Easy for you to say. You have everything in your life that I just lost.”

“Have you forgotten what I said this morning? I offered you everything I have.”

Everything except love.

“This—” he gestured to the rubble behind them, “—is gone. It sucks. I’m sorry. But now you can move on.” His jaw tightened. “Now you can move in with me.”

“Move on? Just like that? Forget about everything in my life going up in flames and move in with you?”

“I want to take care of you, baby doll. What don’t you understand about that?”

AJ looked him dead in the eye. “I don’t want you to take care of me, Cord McKay, because I’ve been taking
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