Page 150 of Knot What I Expected

Rowan.

That man scares me. Because I could want him for more than one night.

I already do.

And that is a problem I absolutely cannot afford.

“You’re thinking too hard,” he murmurs.

I blink.

“What?”

One corner of his mouth lifts.

“Can practically hear it from here, Honey Girl.”

“Maybe I’m thinking about kicking you out.”

His smile disappears.

“Okay.”

The immediate answer catches me off guard.

No argument.

No growl.

No obnoxious Wolf telling me what I really mean.

Just—okay.

His jaw tightens, though.

And there.

That tiny reaction.

It tells me everything I want to know.

He’d leave if I asked him to. But he doesn’t want to.

Something warm unfurls beneath my ribs.

I walk closer.

“You’d really go?”

His golden eyes narrow.

“If you tell me to.”

“But you don’t want to.”

“No.”

The word is immediate.