She blinked. He hadn’t just said what she thought he said. It wasn’t possible. It was too soon. It was—
“We really have to work on your turnaround time in conversations.” The amused tone of his voice interrupted her racing thoughts. She blinked again, trying to let it process, and this time he laughed out loud, a warm, rumbling sound that vibrated through both of them. “Oh, this is going to be good,” Jason said.
“What is?” she managed to ask. Her heart felt like it was skipping every other beat; she had no idea how she was getting anything resembling coherent speech out at all.
“Whatever explanation you come up with to try to not believe me this time.”
The implication of his words made her eyes widen, but when Flanna began to struggle to step free, Jason merely shifted so that he was p
