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It was more of an accusation than a question

“No,” he said and Savannah’s lips hite, her shoulders going rigid and tight as if taking a punch

“See?” Her voice broke slightly as she turned to Katie “He—”

“But I can co her to face hi her to look into his eyes She was blank, carefully blank, as if showing so her to her knees Suddenly, he was desperate to convince her, to shake off that terrible stillness so he could see so true So he could see the real Savannah

“I have a couple months’ work to finish up in St Louis,” he continued “But then, I can co at them slack-jawed “I want to come back”

Savannah’s face was still unreadable, but he felt her hands shake as she pulled thehout her foundation “We don’t have to talk about this right now”

“Why not?”

Finally, soot hot “Because we’ve known each other three weeks, Matt, and half that ti yourself in uilt over the Elements accident and now, suddenly, you’re over it and ready to move here?”

That pissed hi up the relationship that way so she could dismiss it

“I’m not a child, Savannah I kno I feel”

“Really?” she asked, laughing slightly and her scorn stung, like nails across his skin “I find that hard to believe”

He stepped close Her heat had lit his own fuse and he was suddenly pissed off that she doubted him

“Are you so ready to throhat we’ve got?” he asked

“And what exactly do we have?”

His eyes narrowed, his htened “Don’t try to pretend you don’t feel so, Savannah You don’t let people close to you, I know that And yet—” he spread his arht-year-old audience “—here I am”

Her eyelids flinched “I don’t understand why you’re so ready to throay your life for a woman you’ve known less than a month”