Chapter 14

And not a moment too soon.’

He’d done all he could do these past few days to keep his hands off Lucia stones. It was all well and good to say he wasn’t going to kiss her again, to tell her he was keeping his hands off unless she invited him to do otherwise, of course, to tell himself that he was doing the sane, sensible thing he will, even honorable by keeping their relationship on a completely professional level.

It was something else again to get to sleep at night.

He didn’t want to be sleeping at night. He wanted to be in bed with Lucia doing...