Julia put her hands over and then laced her fingers with his, wrapping his arms closer about her. She didn't like that he had been hurt and wanted to help somehow.
Derek tightened his arma around her a bit more in response. "She wasn't always like that," he told her. "She could a pushy when it came to something she wanted, but the woman I knew wouldn't have done what she did to you. I must have missed some sign that she had changed."
