Chapter 42

She nodded, but otherwise, she didn’t move. He stepped forward until they were mere inches apart. His hands came to rest on her shoulders. The heat from his body melted the hold that had been on her from the… spirits. She sank into his touch, pressing herself into his chest and clutching her still-frigid hands to his shirt.

She felt him tense all over at her abrupt embrace. Then his hand came down around her and held her against him.

“It’s all right. We’ve both had a long couple of days.”

“Thank you for coming with me,” she whispered. “I know I… accused you of having ulterior motives last night, but…”

“It’s fine,” he said.

“It’s not. If I don’t want people to judge me for being a half-Fae, I shouldn’t judge people for things they can’t control.”

She tilted her head up to look into those big gray eyes. His flicked between her eyes and then her mouth and back. Her heart stuttered in her chest for a whole new reason. She watched the calculation in his mind. The pull that she could no lon