Chapter 161

Katie's POV

It was lucky for me that my hands were already occupied with holding up his jacket, or I might have made some embarrassing concession to my sudden desire to get closer to the action.

And what did it matter if he knew? He probably did know that women fell over themselves the instant he took his clothes off.

And the whole point of our encounter was that he intended to convince me to marry him… or to play along with intending to marry him, which was more or less the same thing these days, at least physically.

On some level, he was making an offer of...