All Chapters of The Runaway Heiress:Seven Days of Sin: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

"I-I wish," I said through ragged breaths, "I wish this were another time and place. I wish this were longer than a week. I wish I could, but I can't."He squeezed my hand again. "I'm not asking—not because I don't want that. I do. I'm not asking because we both went into this with the same expectat

Present"Forget them, all of them," Chelsea said, her voice coming through my phone loud and clear.Sitting cross-legged on the bed of my Savannah hotel room, I shook my head. I knew I was in Georgia, and she was in California so I knew she couldn't see me, but I needed to move. I needed to explain.

We talked about everything, except the reason I left Montague Manor and the reason I called. We talked about school and graduate school. He talked about interior design and how he was currently doing an internship with a well-known design firm in the business district. He said the name, but I didn't

I sat at the breakfast bar while Pat moved around the kitchen, cutting and dicing. By the time he was done, we each had one of the best-looking salads I'd ever seen."And you cook, too," I said with a wink."Oh little cousin, I am a man of many talents.""Tell me about Cy."Patrick shook his head. "

The footsteps neared and a handsome, distinguished man walked in, wearing a suit. I’m not sure if he was what I expected, but that wasn’t a bad thing. He had gray around his temples and peppered through his black hair. He was taller than Patrick, and his face held the lines of someone who spent his