Reborn, I Married the Man He Feared novel · Chapter 7 of 24

Chapter 7: Not Angry

The car rolled into the garage under the Tilghman house, and the engine cut off.

Neither of them moved.

The driver got out, shut his door, and left them with a tact that was almost funny.

Clara was still holding the pearls.

Her hand had gone numb around them.

"You didn't say a word," she said.

"No."

"Chase took one look at you and walked out of his own family's ballroom."

"Yes." Alexander was looking straight ahead.

"Why does everybody fold? I've watched you do it three times now. A lawyer, Chase, a room full of people, and you never raise your voice."

"I don't need to."

"That's not an answer."

"It's the one I have."

She turned toward him in the dark.

All the rage she had swallowed in the ballroom came up in her chest at once.

It was for Chase and Daphne and the boot on her ribs, and it was for the man in front of her, who knew something he would not say.

"You sit outside my door all night," she said. "You hand me tea with no sugar before I ask. You tore up a contract for me in front of a stranger. And I'm supposed to believe you're just a polite man who bought my father's debt."

"I never said I was polite."

"What do you want from me, Alexander?"

His head turned.

In the dim garage his eyes were almost black.

"Nothing you're ready to give," he said.

She did not decide to do it.

She was out of the car and around it before he had his door open, and when he stood up she put both hands flat on his chest and pushed him back against the side of the car.

He let her.

He was taller than she had thought, and the cane clattered to the concrete between them.

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