Chapter 45

• He backed up the car, and then they headed out of the parking lot in silence, but she was fully aware of his hands that gripped the steering wheel. They were large and strong hands, and she could imagine those same hands gripping her. That thought made heat seep into every cell and pore of her body, percolating her bones and making her surrender to something she’d never had before.
• Her virginal state was always in a mess around Mason, and it had never bothered her before, and it didn’t really bother her now, except the unknown was making the naughtiness in her come out. It was making her anticipate things she was better off not getting.
• “You’ve gotten quiet on me, Lisa,” Mason said. She glanced over at him and again met his gaze, thinking she had. But she figured he didn’t want to hear her thoughts out loud, and certain things she needed to keep to herself.