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because I thought we would be trying for a baby, and he’d been using me
so he didn’t have to tell anyone that he wasn’t straight.”
    “And you’re, well, shit Maddie .”
Jack clearly had no idea what to say. “The son of a bitch,” he cursed.
    “He liked my lifestyle, I guess,
and having me on his arm made him look good to his colleagues. And I stupidly
thought I loved him.”
    Jack reached for her hand, lifted
it to drop a kiss to her skin. His eyes were searching hers, and she knew she’d
been right to tell him. It had taken all her courage to tell her sisters, and
she’d never thought she’d tell another soul, but Jack… well, now Jack knew too.
Maybe she’d needed another man’s perspective just to make her realize that
there was nothing she could have done to make things turn out any differently.
    “And that’s why you had to ask me
if I was genuinely attracted to you, isn’t it?” His voice was soft, but she
could hear the anger in his tone too, knew he was furious that she’d been hurt. “Because you’re second guessing everything.”
    Maddison nodded. She’d been needy and she hadn’t been able to help it.
    “How can I ever trust that a man
wants me for who I am, Jack? How?”
    He shook his head. “The guy liked
other dudes , Maddie .
That doesn’t mean you did anything wrong, but it means he was a dickhead for
playing you.”
    She blinked away tears, but not
before Jack saw them.
    “Can you ever see me chasing after
another guy?”
    That made her
laugh . She couldn’t help it. When she’d been younger Jack and his
brother had driven her mad because they’d had girls flocking around them, and
they’d loved it. Jack was a ladies man; she knew it
and so did he.
    “Did he ever kiss you like I just
did?” Jack’s voice was deep, gravelly this time.
    Now she was squirming in her seat.
That kiss had been… stormy, sexy, hot . Definitely not sweet. And definitely not convenient.
    “You need me to do it again?” Jack
asked, waggling his eyebrows and giving her a wink.
    “You’re bad, you know that?” she
told him.
    His face was so close she could
feel his breath on her cheek, could sense the smile on his face as he drew even
closer.
    “I thought going from friends to
lovers was supposed to be difficult.” His voice was so raspy it sent a chill
through her body.
    Lovers? “Who said anything about
lovers?” she managed, barely louder than a whisper.
    Jack traced one finger down her
cheek, arcing down her neck then all the way down to her thigh. His lips moved
softly against hers, caressing her, his body close but not close enough.
    Maddison needed to stop, needed to push away, no matter how good this felt. Because
she’d just had her heart broken, because this was too much too soon, when it
was meant to be about convenience, not attraction. This
wasn’t something she could just do on impulse and damn the consequences.
    “Jack, I think,” she said, putting
a hand between them to force some distance. “That we need to
take a rain check.”
    He was smiling like he knew exactly
how to change her mind. And she didn’t
doubt he could.
    “It’s too soon, I get that,” he
said.
    “Yeah, and because we’re friends,”
she told him, eyes never leaving his. “We never let anything happen before, and now…”
    He raised an eyebrow. “Now what?”
    Maddison sighed. “I just think we need to think this through before we let things go any
further. You mean way too much to me, Jack. I don’t want to lose you just
because we couldn’t behave like adults.”
    Jack laughed. “You know I could
argue that we’ve been behaving exactly like adults should, right?”
    “I’m going home.” She was enjoying
herself, but stopping Jack if things got hot and heavy again? Probably not going to happen .
    “So are we still engaged?” he
asked, standing and offering her a hand to help her to her feet. “Or going to
be?”
    “If it means saving your ranch,
then yes,” she said, trying to