If the Shoe Fits
“The arctic room and woman he’d just left was now replaced with warmth and a sense of peace at seeing Charlie and her surroundings. He watched her at her desk with her head bent over her work. She drew something that held her rapt attention.
Tendrils of her dark hair fell forward. She brushed them back impatiently. Her teeth gnawed at her bottom lip as she swept the charcoal pencil over the half-filled page. He imagined soothing that tortured flesh.
Tenderness welled up inside him.
How in the wo...rld had she survived with that cold hearted, emotionless woman as her stepmother all these years?
But she had. And thrived, if his guess was correct from all her laughter and high jinks of the night before and even this morning.
A well of admiration pooled inside of him. God, she was so adorable.
The phone rang. “Can you get that, Peg?” she asked, never taking her focus off the page. “Tell them I’m busy and will call them back.”
Peg, he assumed, was her secretary. However, she’d stepped away from her desk.MoreLess
Tendrils of her dark hair fell forward. She brushed them back impatiently. Her teeth gnawed at her bottom lip as she swept the charcoal pencil over the half-filled page. He imagined soothing that tortured flesh.
Tenderness welled up inside him.
How in the wo...rld had she survived with that cold hearted, emotionless woman as her stepmother all these years?
But she had. And thrived, if his guess was correct from all her laughter and high jinks of the night before and even this morning.
A well of admiration pooled inside of him. God, she was so adorable.
The phone rang. “Can you get that, Peg?” she asked, never taking her focus off the page. “Tell them I’m busy and will call them back.”
Peg, he assumed, was her secretary. However, she’d stepped away from her desk.MoreLess
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