Chapter 105

Sebastian glowered at his mother, then scowled at himself. Because she was right. Angela didn’t want to marry him.

Or did she? She had asked him to marry her in that bet, hadn’t she? OK, so she claimed it was one-upmanship, and that did ring true, given their history. But what if something else had been at play there? What if…?

For the first time, Sebastian began to consider the possibility that something was going on with Angela that he’d been blind to. Ali might have touched upon it when he said that what some women say and what they feel were two different things. Sebastian had hard evidence of what Angela felt for him when she was with him in bed, when her defences were down. Not just desire and need, but also passion. A deep and powerful passion, which drove her body to feel things that her mind resisted.

‘I shouldn’t be letting you do this to me…’

That was what she’d said shortly after she’d acted as if she didn’t want to make love with him; that she wa