CHAPTER 25
MIAI stared between him and the phone, nerves zipping through me. Break up with Mason? If I broke up with Mason and if I trusted Michael with my entire life … things could go very, very wrong. I didn’t want to be with Mason at all, but he was safe. He’d been helping me for years, and I knew he’d continue.
Being with Michael, hiding our relationship from Melissa … that was sticky and more than risky. What if Melissa found out and drove us apart? Michael would choose her over me any day of the f*****g week. She was his daughter.
He growled lowly under his breath. “Maybe s*x is all you want.”
“No, Michael,” I breathed out. “It’s not all I want …”
He moved his fingers up the inside of my thigh, higher and higher and higher.
“But …”
He brushed two fingers against the front of
