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Halfway through the movie, Damian’s arm slipped around her shoulders and she relaxed into him. She pushed all thoughts of the future away. She just wanted to be near him tonight.

Damian leaned over and pressed his lips to the top of her head. It was a simple gesture, but it warmed her to her toes.

“I feel bad about you working at Dale’s,” he said, his voice low.

“It is what it is.”

He slowly nodded. “Maybe it doesn’t have to be. I’ve been thinking about expanding the newspaper.”

She looked at him and blinked. He was what? The thought hadn’t even occurred to her. Hope filled her and she grabbed the remote to pause the movie. “Expanding, how?”

“If I buy a bigger building, and invest in some printing presses, the newspaper wouldn’t need to outsource anymore.”

Kat tried not to get too excited. “Would it be more cost-effective, then?”

“Yes. And if I hired more reporters we could look at printing by-weekly.”

Was he saying what she was hoping? Would he really hire her as a reporter? She raised an eyebrow and tried to act cool. “That sounds like a good idea.”

“Do you think Pleasant Hollow could support a by-weekly printing?”

“You know that’s an unfair question to ask me, right? Because there’s nothing I’d like more than to be hired on as a reporter for the Pleasant Hollow Times. So, there’s no way I’d tell you we can’t support a bi-weekly paper.”

Damian grinned at her, playing with a lock of her hair. “You’re right. That’s not fair of me.”

She poked him in the side. “And it’s so not fair for you to dangle this carrot in front of me if you’re not serious about it.”

His grin faded and he sobered. “I looked at a building today.”

She tried to smother her excitement, but it didn’t work. “Are you kidding me?”

“No,” he said, chuckling.

“Oh, my gosh. I could kiss you.”

Damian’s lips twitched. “I wouldn’t stop you.”

His voice was deep and it made her heart stutter. Butterflies exploded in her stomach as she gazed into his dark eyes. All rational thought left her head and she found herself moving toward him.

Chapter 23

Kat couldn’t stop herself. She kissed Damian with everything she had been holding back. He wrapped his arms around her and took command of the kiss, moving his lips over hers. Energy surged through her and she slid her hand up his chest. He kissed her jaw and she closed her eyes, the attraction between them crackling.

Damian broke the connection, putting distance between them, his gaze penetrating through her. “I should tell you something.”

Kat steeled herself for whatever it was. He was going to pull back again, she was sure of it. She didn’t want to hear once again how they couldn’t be together. It might break her. She had taken a risk tonight. How stupid she’d been. Again.

“Okay,” she whispered as she moved away from him.

“After my car crash, I was trapped inside my car for over twenty minutes.”

She hadn’t been expecting that. She blinked at him as his words sunk in. He was going to talk about his car crash with her. Emotion swelled in her chest. “That’s awful.”

“The car caught fire.”

She swallowed. He’d told Amelia about his burned leg, but she wasn’t supposed to know. She didn’t know what to say so she stayed silent.

Damian seemed like he didn’t want to go on. He broke eye contact, looking down at his lap. “My leg was badly burned in the accident. In the next five years, I had over thirty surgeries.”

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