“She’d spent seventeen years racked with an inordinate amount of guilt about what she’d done…guilt and fear…so much so that she had been unable to form a lasting relationship with anyone. Every time she’d tried…every time she’d met someone she’d started to feel herself attracted to and who had been attracted to her…it hadn’t been long before that dreadful burden of guilt and terror had submerged any growing feelings of pleasure or hope in the relationship continuing, and eventually—inevitably—it... had come to an end. Hadn’t she carried that debilitating burden for long enough? Her heart longed to be able to love again, to give itself wholeheartedly to the right man without fearing that she might fall pregnant and be forced to terminate again. But, looking into Jack’s stare—Caroline was convinced it was contemptuous—it was obvious he didn’t think that she’d suffered nearly enough. ‘You live here alone?’ he asked, ignoring the question. ‘Yes.’ ‘I always wondered what this place looked like on the inside,’ he commented, glancing around him, his gaze alighting on the beautiful Irish dresser with its eye-catching display of highly collectible blue and white china.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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