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you back at the house.”
    He walked toward the car, watching Erin while she continued to stare straight ahead. She should have learned long ago that he didn’t like to be ignored. It only made him push harder.
    He opened the back door of the car, pushed the baking trays and cooking equipment to the far side of the seat and sat down, closing the door behind him. “Let’s go, ladies.”
    Karen accelerated and wound up her window. “Erin tells me you had a great time last night.”
    Erin gasped, her focus moving into the car to glare at her sister. “Karen!”
    Jesse couldn’t hold back a smile.
    “What? I didn’t say anything specific. You gave yourself away by being so uptight.”
    Erin let out a huff and the heat of her glare moved his way. Their gazes met before she leaned back against the window and stared out at the paddocks.
    “Yeah, I had fun,” Jesse added. He missed seeing Erin all riled up.
    “I bet,” Karen laughed. “I didn’t realise my sister was such a little hussy.”
    Erin kept quiet while they pulled up in front of his parents’ house. When the car came to a stop she unclicked her seatbelt and hurried to get out.
    Damn it. She was pissed, or upset, or one of those other feminine emotions he still didn’t understand. Undoing his belt, Jesse got out of the car and ran after her. She stormed up the verandah steps, opened the front door and slammed it in his face.
    By the time he’d undone his dirty boots and gone inside he had no clue where she was. He searched the kitchen, the lounge room and the dining room. After checking the back deck, he gave up and went to his old bedroom to get ready. When he was clean he would go in search of her again. He didn’t know why he was compelled to chase her. He still didn’t know why he loved her so much, but the emotions were there, cloying and clogging up his mind.
    Kicking the bedroom door shut he gripped the bottom of his sweat slicked shirt and tugged it over his head, feeling the grit and grim with every flex of his muscles.
    “Are you having fun?” Erin’s voice came from the other side of the room.
    He paused, his chest bare, his shirt still tangled in his hands and glanced in her direction. She was standing by the window, her gaze focused outside. He didn’t know how to answer without sounding like a selfish jerk. Yes, last night had been fun. Feeling her pulse around his fingers, her heavy breathing drowning out the world. It was a huge amount of fun. And in equal measure he knew it was wrong. He wanted to be with her today, and tonight, even though it would hurt like hell to leave.
    He still remembered her tear streaked face, the way she looked at him in anguish when he left her the first time. Yet here he was, trying to rekindle something that would never last. “Not at the moment, but if you come a little closer I’m sure we can sort something out.”
    Erin scowled at him, unimpressed. He stood in place, the air-conditioning drying the mix of sweat and dirt on his naked chest as she walked toward him.
    She stopped a foot away and raised her eyebrows. “You’ve changed.”
    He had. He wasn’t the boy she fell in love with. He had money now, power and a successful business to run. Yet his life still lacked the most important aspect–love. Her love, a love he’d cherished before he moved out of Holbrook.
    “Is that a good thing?” he asked, already knowing her answer.
    She scoffed in reply and studied his bedspread.
    He stepped into her, unable to maintain the distance between them.
    “Don’t,” she glowered, “I’m here to do a job, and I can’t do that if you’re always…” she huffed and shook her hands around her head, “you’re always…there.” Her heated palm rested on his chest, maintaining their distance and she averted her gaze. “I can’t work around you, Jesse.”
    He ran his finger under her chin and watched her throat convulse. “Didn’t you enjoy our time together last night?”
    Her eyes closed and her