"You do know who my father is, don't you?" she muttered defensively. "How many males do you think were willing to take him on when it came to his only daughter? They were too frightened to even kiss me let alone do anything else."
His heart banged painfully in his chest and he reached out with a gentleness he didn't know he possessed, tilting her chin up so their eyes met. "Was that your first kiss, sugar?" It should have been a stupid question to be asking a woman of her age but her expressive eyes answered him eloquently.
Mac wanted to kick himself. The uncertainty he'd seen on her face when he'd broken off their kiss was now very understandable. He'd had to use all his self-control to restrain himself, digging deep inside to find the cold, ruthless edge he wore so easily. And Lily had
