Chapter 12: Idle DaysHe doesn't leave her side for more than a few hours at a time after that, except to leave her in her room at night. Lord Owen is annoyed at first that he's lost a breakfast companion, but she catches him smiling fondly at them from the corner of her eyes and knows that he's happy for his brother.
She does not stay in his room after that first night.
"I don't trust myself around you," he admits, kissing her at the door and making sure she's locked it behind her before leaving. She doesn't want him to trust himself around her. Perhaps that's the problem. She finds herself wanting to kiss him all the time, wanting his lips around her and his arms on her ass. She wants him to make her feel like she's the only thing in the world that matters, but they never make it pass k
