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What if she didn’t want him to be noble? What if she didn’t want to be saved? What if what she wanted was to have sex with a man just because she wanted to have sex? Because she wanted what his body offered? Because she felt physical excitement when she looked at hi between them and just feel, just act, just do, and live in the moment?

She bit the inside of her bottoh Neil had initially thrilled at her lack of experience, he’d soon pointed out her shortco a man

She should go into her tent and be done with this

She should

But she wasn’t going to

Because she wasn’t the love-starved woman who’d married Neil Neither was she the beaten-dooh and walked away fro to bear

She was a wo out who Taylor hat Taylor wanted out of life, and was deters out

She didn’t fool herself that Jack was anythingthat journey One she’d look back on with fond rets

Was she willing to let this moment pass and not take that next step? Not let hi out on for the first twenty-five years of her life? Because she knew sex with Jack would be nothing like anything she’d ever known

A mosquito buzzed around her and she swatted it away

Now or never, Taylor Are you brave enough to go for what you want? Or live the rest of your life wondering ould have happened if you’d gone into his tent?

Have you shed enough of the insecurities of the past toin your power to rets?

CHAPTER SEVEN

IGNORING THE FACT Taylor hadn’t budged from where he’d left her, Jack stripped off his T-shirt and shorts and lay down on top of his sleeping bag

He closed his eyes, the surprised look on Taylor’s face haunting him