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Chapter 13 Confessions and Complications

Agreeing, Clint puts his arm around her to cuddle, and Jenny rests her head on his shoulder. She tells him softly that he'd better not think of sleeping with her tonight—only someone less than human would lay his hands on a drunk woman.
Clint agrees, but asks if she drank this much just to prevent him from sleeping with her. She denies that—she's just wondering what she's doing at a man's house. Ha, she's so disoriented that she actually starts to wonder why she's here, and Clint has to remind her that a thief broke into her house.
Turning her head, Jenny gazes into Clint's eyes and caresses his cheek, to his excited bewilderment.
She moves her finger across his lips and mumbles slowly, “I think… that I… like you, Clint.”
Perhaps too happy to respond, Clint can only stare back at Jenny. She adds that she likes kissing him too and pulls him in for one, and Clint is thoroughly astonished.
Jenny buries her head into his shoulder and suggests that they go to sleep now, but Clint asks her how she can fall asleep after a confession like that.
He carries her up to the bedroom and looks fondly at her sleeping form, bending down to give her a light kiss on the cheek. He grabs a pillow and sets it on the floor by the bed, and, looking up at Jenny, he tells her that he thinks that he’ll be the one who’ll regret it tomorrow morning.
The next morning, a groggy Jenny immediately remembers her embarrassing drunken confession from the night before and smacks herself, crying out, “Alcohol, my enemy!” Mortified, she buries her head into her pillow.
She tiptoes around the house, doing her best to avoid being seen by Clint. She walks over to a balcony area and breathes in the fresh air, when suddenly, she spots a puppy crawling dangerously along the ledge outside.
Climbing over the railing, she slowly inches across to save the clueless puppy, which is exactly when Clint spots her. As Jenny grabs the puppy, she loses her balance and slips off the ledge, but Clint runs in to cushion her fall.
Jenny gets up and starts worrying that Clint is dead when he doesn't immediately respond to her, but Clint just groans in pain that he's definitely not dead. He tells her to take care of herself before taking care of the puppy and adds that she should be extra careful since she’s so clumsy.
He starts to pull her up, but moans in pain when she grabs his arm. It turns out that he's dislocated his shoulder, and Jenny worries over him.
At SH Mall, Bryan tells his father that it’s suspicious for the mall’s stock prices to go up so much. His father simply responds that it’s natural for stock prices to go up and down, and assures Bryan that it’s a good thing for them. He tells Bryan to focus on getting to know more about Jenny, and Bryan looks suspiciously at his father as they part ways.
Back at Clint’s house, he leads Jenny over to the couch so that he can apply ointment on her scrapes. She tells him that they should be more concerned about his shoulder, but he just sits her down and tells her that he’s moody enough, considering how he couldn’t get any sleep last night.
Jenny starts to wonder why he didn’t get enough sleep, but argues that he’s always a moody person anyway. As Clint applies the medicine, Jenny tells him hesitatingly not to change all of a sudden—there’s a saying that people die if they change drastically. He just sighs at her nonsense and walks off as soon as he’s done applying the medicine.
When Jenny pulls open a drawer to put the medicine box away, she notices a framed picture lying inside the drawer. It’s Clint and his biological mother at a much happier time, and Jenny looks at it thoughtfully.
Upstairs, Clint is struggling to button his shirt when Jenny comes in. Clint tells her that it’s just a small sprain, but Jenny urges him to go to the hospital, noting that he can’t even lift his left arm.
Clint just hands Jenny his necktie and asks her to tie it for him, though she warns him that she’s pretty bad at it.
She inches closer to loop the tie, but hesitates when she notices how close Clint’s face is to hers.
Avoiding eye contact, she steps back and continues tying the knot. Clint, on the other hand, keeps a steady gaze on her.
Jenny slowly looks up, and their eyes meet.

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