Chapter forty-nine
HEATED MOMENT
Gabriella sat on the couch with her arms crossed while Jesse stared into his lap with a worried frown. His aftershave drowned her senses and she yearned to have him hold her. All this new information was making her sick, and Jesse made her feel safe. She was falling in love with him. The way his hand clenched loosely over his lap, the way his eyes softened whenever she opened up to him, and the way the shape of his full lips tantalised her with arousal. Her chest warmed at how he had been protective of her all these months, and how in spite of the secret she had kept from him, he was still trying to protect her. How could she tell him how she felt when they would never work? When she no longer believed in relationships? Not to mention needing to keep Jess
