Chapter 30
The color drained from Eve’s face. Is he crazy?
“I will not spend the night with you!” she said and leaned away from him.
Boaz chuckled. “As much as I would like that, I have never had to force a woman to be with me, and I’m not about to start now, especially with you.”
“Then what?”
“I’m going to do this.” He lifted his right arm and draped it around her shoulders. “And then I’m going to do this.” He pulled her up against his chest. “And now we are just going to sit and talk.”
Every part of Eve tensed, and the bile in her stomach swirled a direction it wasn’t meant to. She moved to sit up, but he gripped her shoulder tightly.
“If you want to keep your friends safe, this is what I require. I hardly see how this is a problem.”
“But why?” she asked. “Why not just put that s
