Chapter Five
I comfort myself with the reminder that he didn’t climax.
I left after his raw denial, shaken and hurt. He’d been hard beneath the placket of his trousers, intensely turned on, but he didn’t try to stop me. And why should he? He’d proven his point. He could have me anytime he wanted. He’d paid for the right. He didn’t get an orgasm, but he got everything else.
On the bus I consider where to go next. Uncle Landon’s office?
I know we need to talk. He has to explain how the house left my trust, something he promised wouldn’t happen. And even if we’re not on good terms, I need his help to get it back.
Except I’m too vulnerable, so soon after Gabriel’s lips made me come. I touch my cheeks as the bus rumbles through the city. Hot. Probably pink. Anyone who looks at me would kno
