#Chapter 12: Cool Touch

Audrey I felt an electric current run through me at his touch. Edwin’s hand was cool and steady against mine, his palm pressing sturdily against the backs of my fingers. I thought my knees might buckle beneath me, or that I might even explode from the feeling of our skin touching. But just as my lips were parting to speak, my gaze wandering up to meet Edwin’s gray eyes, a cooling eucalyptus sensation spread across my palm. I snapped my eyes back down to our hands, my cheeks reddening when I saw the real reason behind why he had touched me. He was running a soothing roller balm across my hand. “Oh,” I muttered, feeling my face heat up even more despite the cooling sensation on my hand. I hadn’t realized it, but I had pricked myself multiple times with the pins when I had been draping the gown—a feeling that I had grown so used to over the years that I hadn’t even noticed it. Edwin, on the other hand, had noticed the little red dots. That was why