Chandler dropped his chin and breathed deeply. "Could you?"

"I don't hold your past against you. Because it's irrational and unfair, and you know it." She said,

"That's not what I mean." He lifted his head, held her gaze, and the resolve Elena saw there chilled her to her core. "Could you overlook it if I told you that I showed up that night to take a shot with Emily?"

Words were gone. Her mouth was sand-dry at what that did to her.

He kept talking, quiet, dangerous words that did horrible ...