Chapter 20

Like he was her destiny.

Ridiculous. God had a plan for her. And as much as she was loath to leave Pierce’s arms because this would probably be their last few moments alone, He wouldn’t curse her to lose her heart to a man her family and community would shun, right?

Pierce pulled her in, kissing his way up her cleavage, her collarbone, her shoulder. “Stay tonight.”

She shouldn’t. She couldn’t.

But she was so very tempted.

The truth was, her father would go to bed early because, even if he wasn’t giving the service tomorrow, he would want to be well rested for his first Sunday back in the church since his surgery. Cutter wasn’t leaving the hospital tonight. It was already past visiting hours, and he wouldn’t expect to see her until he was officially discharged in the morning. So the two people most likely to care where she spent the night would have no idea she wasn’t at home, tucked chastely in her bed.

This might be her only chance to stay with P