This man was crying, although it was just a dampness around his eyes, but it still deeply shook her heart.
She thought, she would never forget the tear her fingertip touched, in her lifetime.
Kevin Cliff suddenly grasped her hand and pulled her close, bending down to kiss her.
He desperately needed something to tell himself that she was really alive, and still living well.
Only after Charlotte Green could hardly breathe did he end it, and then he held her in his arms again, to soothe his inner unrest and panic.
"I'm sorry." Charlotte Green once again voiced her apology in his embrace.
She knew that this time she had truly scared him, no, she had terrified him. Such a fearless man in everyone's eyes had been scared because of her 'death'.
"You deserve a spanking, but don't ever say those three words again," Kevin Cliff's breath gently fell on her ear, his tone serious.
