It must be the shock of everything from yesterday: the episode with my mother, then with Vanquis, and now here is Jake, my savior, my protector, the hunk of the Carrero empire. He is gorgeous in every way, and, despite my issues with my past, I am still capable of being turned on. By him, anyway. I am a woman, after all! I can see why my body would respond to him that way. And that kiss is something no woman could deny.

I shouldn’t have touched him that way. I crossed the line, and ...