"I didn't know," he said, his voice incredibly rough and raw as he kept pacing the wooden floorboards. "I honestly had no idea, Tessa. I just assumed... with the bold way you approached me at the bar that night, and the way you demanded I pretend to be your man... the way you..." He stopped talking and shook his head quickly, cutting his own thoughts off. "It doesn't matter what I assumed. It doesn't matter at all. The point is, I was about to take your body hard against a metal fence in the yard, and then I dragged you up here to my room like a savage animal. Without knowing the truth."
He stopped pacing and walked slowly back to the edge of the bed. He dropped back down onto his knees in front of me, but this time, his touch was completely different from before. It wasn't rough, and it
