Lila sighed heavily and collapsed backward. This rollercoaster of emotions wasn’t doing much to help her, and the pain of her mother’s death was still raw in her heart.

She need to be close to someone. More specifically, she needed to be close to the one man who had always been there for her, and it was apparent to Lila that neither of them would be able to contain their passion for one another for much longer. She couldn’t even sit in his lap without his passion for her ...