Chapter 142

• Jack sighed deeply, frustrated with himself. The way he’d reacted to Lila had been shocking and painful. He’d raised this child like she was his own for years, and now that her mother was gone, he was all she had left. That made his reaction to her all the more troubling.
• When she was sitting in his lap, something had changed. Rather than feeling that familiar fatherly love for her, he’d found himself attracted to her physically. She smelled like her mother, and he noticed her body was finally filling out. The feel of her soft skin against his, and her round bottom against his groin had excited him, and he hated himself.
• The last thing Lila needs is to know her stepfather has some kind of sick crush on her, he thought. But she deserves an explanation.