Bella She could see the difference in Parker nearly instantly. He’d pulled away from her, gotten up off the bed and stepped away from her. It couldn’t be a nice feeling to be rejected, even as politely as she had tried to make it for him. Laid out the reasons why that he would see were actually valid even and that was essentially what she’d just done, and she knew it. She’d basically just told him he could be Whit’s dad, but they’d never be a family. It was kind of making her uncomfortable inside her chest to see him like that. She didn’t want to hurt him, but that offer to have her inside his suite, it had made her realise something; that if she took it up she was essentially telling him they were going to work out and even Whit would think that. It wasn’t right to do that to him or to

