Chapter 10

It was almost noon when Catherine arrived at Cameron’s mansion. She rang the bell. She knew she had to be patient since Cameron didn’t have a household staff.

Catherine had decided to take Chelsea’s advice. It was best not to let the ‘incident’ linger between them. Best to talk about it and then let it go.

The door opened and Catherine was stunned.

“Your eye,” she breathed as her hand flew to her chest.

Cameron’s left eye was swollen shut. He gave her a little smile. “It looks worse than what it is. Please, come in.”

Catherine crossed the threshold. “Are you sure –”

“I’m fine.”

“God, you can’t show up to court tomorrow afternoon looking like this. I’ll see if I can postpone the next session for a week. Do you think it will be cleared up by then?”

“Mostly, I believe. At the very least it won’t be so obvious.”

Catherine nodded. She felt terrible. If it wasn’t for her, he wouldn’t have a black eye, especially one this bad.

“Let’s go in the study,” he said and began walking.

Neither one