Dermott nodded. "Dani filled me in, asked if I was willing to go along with the idea."

"Why did you?" That, more than anything else, I had to know.

"Do you really have to ask?" That voice made my toes tingle as it deepened. "I want you, Jess. I have since the moment Ty introduced us three months ago."

For a moment I forgot how to breathe.

He went on. "I won't do anything you don't want - I've never forced a woman in my life, and I'm not about to start now. But ...