Chapter 1923

Liam cast a blank look at her before taking the towel and drying his face with it.

Then, he gently ruffled her hair. “Did I scare you back there?”

Caprice shook her head. “No.”

She was slightly startled, but not to the point of being scared.

Liam smiled faintly. “Sit down. Let me see your head.”

Caprice did as she was told and sat down on a nearby chair.

He delicately parted her hair with his slender fingers and studiously inspected the spot where she had just bumped her head when she was lurking outside the study.

Caprice pursed her lips into a thin smile and told him, “Liam, I’m fine. It doesn’t even hurt anymore.”

He seemed relieved. “Yeah.”

There was some slight redness, but there was no wound.

After watching him return to his usual demeanor, she asked, “What happened to you back there?”

looked like he wanted to devour her whole.

a pause, he added, “It’s just… a common reaction from

reaction from a man? What was that

left more

was already walking away and seemed to

stop probing him for answers. She

smiled and gestured. “Here, let me show you the garden in the back. It looks very pretty now because all the flowers are in

smiled and squeezed her hand

Time passed quickly.

when one of the housemaids had shown up and told them that

had no choice but to join them at the dining table right

a fine lunch.

John, Sherry, and

in the garden with Caprice, he had to answer two urgent calls. Something had probably come

Caprice was reluctant to let him go, she knew better than to get in the way of his

was parked in its

over to his car and turned

nobody around, she plunged into his

her hair. “I’ll be

tiptoes and pecked the corner of his lips. She

radiant smile.

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