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you’re taking care of Julie or putting out fires to make her life perfect.”
    She snorted. “I wouldn’t say I make her life perfect.”
    “Yeah, but you come damn close. I see all the stuff you do that goes above and beyond your job. You don’t just pick her clothes up from the cleaners, but you put them away. You don’t just go grocery shopping for her, but you make her favorite meals so their ready to heat up. You make sure her car is washed and gassed up. Those are only the things I see, which means there’s a ton of stuff you do that I don’t see. You handle all the little things that make her life easier. I think you’re amazing.”
    She stayed quiet for a minute as she got some milk from the fridge. “Why are you being so nice to me, when I’m such a bitch to you?”
    Blake nodded, stoic, but pumping a mental fist in the air with the topic. Sometimes he wondered the same thing, but if Abbey thought about their first meeting, she’d know why. Blake just didn’t plan to set himself up for another fall. Not yet anyway. “That is a very good question and it deserves an answer. Why are you such a bitch to me?”
    The look on her face was priceless. Her jaw open, her eyes wide. Blake laughed and gently used his index finger to close her mouth. Just the tiny touch zinged through him. That brief contact of her soft skin sent a bolt of heat straight to his gut.
    When she didn’t respond, Blake tried something else. “You’re nice to Troy and I figure it’s because he’s not a threat to you since he’s disgustingly happy being married to Julie. And of course, you love Julie, which is clear in every way imaginable since you take such good care of her. So I see you being nice on a regular basis. You’re just not that nice to me. So then I ask myself, Blake—I call myself Blake since that’s my name—Blake, why do you think Abbey hates you so much?”
    Her hint of a smile dimmed at his question. “I don’t hate y—”
    “And I answer myself, Blake, she doesn’t hate you. She’s afraid of you.” He took a second to gauge her reaction, her grin long gone. Looking at him, she blinked and swallowed, but she didn’t say anything.
    Shit, he hated being right.

Chapter Four

    Abbey turned away from Blake and poured the milk as she struggled to find a response. He was one of the nicest guys she’d ever met. He was funny, gorgeous and had everything a girl would want. He didn’t have a threatening bone in his body and he was one hundred percent right. She was scared of him.
    Strike that.
    She wasn’t scared of Blake specifically. She was scared of all men. But there was no way in hell she planned on admitting that. No one but her family knew her private issues. Not even Julie knew what happened to her nine years ago, and Abbey never planned to tell her, either. That incident was in the past and needed to stay there.
    Blake walked to the other side of the large kitchen. “So I’m right.” He took a deep breath before he turned. “I don’t know what I ever did to make you feel that way. You have to know that I would never, could never, hurt you.” His eyes narrowed as he thought about something. “I scared you in the elevator that first time, didn’t I?” He’d nearly kissed her that day. She’d been so freaked out with the elevator about to drop them, and he’d insisted he could take her mind off it. “I swear I only wanted you to think about something else besides dying in an elevator car. Please, Ab. I’m sorry.”
    “Don’t,” she said, returning the milk and grabbing the chai from the fridge. Coffee for Troy, chai for Julie. “You have nothing to apologize for.” She turned and saw the frustration in his eyes. God, he was so gorgeous standing there with the morning sun highlighting the red in his dark hair and the stubble covering his jaw. Those mile wide shoulders belonged on a football player and his ass, in an Armani underwear ad. “You didn’t scare me in the elevator. You