Katie's POV

Chapter 165

Katie's POV

I needed to get it together before he saw me like this. I put in a tremendous effort and got myself to a more appropriate level of uprightness, but I could tell when I turned to face him coming in that he had a pretty clear idea of my mental state. It figured he would have some experience with fractured women.

He steered me into the kitchen, sat me down on one of the stools at the island bench, and prepared another tea for me, selecting something herbal from my mother’s wooden tea bag box.

It was unsettling watching him move with such ease around our kitchen at first like he’d been there enough times to know where everything was, but after I’d seen enough I was certain that wasn’t the case.

Cephus was just very good at feeling his way around a situation, working out where everything was quickly enough that it just seemed natural.

I shouldn’t… but there I was again wondering how he would be working his hands around a woman. If it would feel different to the ki