Jack should tell her no. He should end this thing, right then and there, and let Gwen get on with her life.
He knew what he should do. But he didn't have the strength to do the right thing. Not with Gwen gazing up at him, like she believed he could do anything.
No one had ever looked at him like that. It humbled him, and it terrified him. It reminded him that he'd let her down. If not now, then someday.
She was too tempting, with her smile and her red hair, her green eyes bright with desire. She'd blossomed so much since they'd started this thing, whatever it was.
Affair. Fling. Friends with benefits.
Jack marveled over the silk of her skin as he caressed her cheek. Her throat. The shadow inside her collarbone. Her eyelashes, tipped in blond, fluttered as he touched her.
"You're addi
