We’ll stay tonight. Then I’ll see.”
Thank God. He nodded, then moved rather stiffly to her side.
She hesitated. “I’m sorry I had to be so…firm.”
“Liar,” he grumbled. “You’re not the least bit sorry.”
A faint smile touched her lips. “All right, so I’m not.”
He offered her his arm. “Where did you learn that, anyway?”
“One of my older male cousins showed me what to do if some man ever tried anything.”
At least her zealousness in protecting herself would keep him from letting his attraction to her run away with him. Any woman who was willing to do that to a man was trouble, and he wasn’t about to give her a second crack at the family jewels.

Author: Sabrina Jeffries