Hailey’s eyes flickered. She worried about upsetting him by saying, “I am the one who said it.”

“Isn’t that so?” She hesitated at first, then, as if realizing, she said, “I must have misunderstood.”

Travis narrowed his eyes. The expression on Hailey’s face didn’t show that she had misunderstood, but that she was exhausted of talking to him and being polite about it.

“Undress,” he said calmly.

Hailey didn’t want to undress, but she also couldn’t ...