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?”

wanted

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

reaction from a man? What was

was left more confused.

already walking away and seemed to be headed

to stop probing him for answers. She got

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 bloom.”

squeezed her

Time passed quickly.

a while when one of the housemaids had shown up and told

had no choice but to join them at

a fine

bid farewell to John, Sherry, and Madam Stockton. With that,

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

than to get in the way of

was parked in its

and

nobody around, she

her hair. “I’ll be going now.”

herself on her tiptoes and pecked

smile.

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