He felt her tension, and hated that his plans, ones that he couldn’t control and didn’t make, had put it there.
After securing the padlock on the door, she turned and found herself nose to nose with her FBI agent. His jaw was clenched and his eyes burned with intensity. It was silly to ask why there was a change in their easy banter and comfortable silences, as each was lost in their art during their paddle around the lake. He was leaving and apparently had several thoughts that he either couldn’t make sense of or ones that were unpleasant. Any stream of chatter her mind tried to create was cut short by the desperation in his kiss. In the next heartbeat, she was riding the waves of emotion along with Ethan.
Warm palms cupped her jaw, but then one moved to tunnel in her hair to keep her l
