“It’s what I tell myself every day,” Alicia told Cass honestly. “I have to, and I can’t afford to start doubting myself. I know I’ve made the right decisions, and…” Her voice trailed off as she looked at him. She didn’t have to defend herself to him. She never had, and yet she had found herself going into a defensive stance almost immediately, which really wasn’t fair to him.
“We’re really not that different, are we?” she mused as she watched him, still amazed that just a week ago, he had been the one to make her shiver, simply by whispering amazingly sweet words to her in the middle of a crowded dance floor, and now she felt as if she was talking to a friend whom she trusted a lot more than most people.