He should’ve been happy when she said she wouldn’t bother him anymore, but he found it a little disheartening all the same.

Then, Zoe moved on from this topic altogether.

Bending down, she closed the car door for him. She got quite close to him when she was doing it. In fact, she got so close that he could smell the sweet scent of formula off of Jamie as well as the faint odor of her perfume. It was a floral scent, the one she had always used in the past. Her tastes hadn’t changed.

The scent was so sweet and fulfilling that it nourished Mason’s emaciated, hollowed out heart. At the same time, however, it also reawakened his dormant lust.

He stared at her so profoundly that she felt as if he was boring right into her soul.

Then, the car door closed and blocked their view. Smacking his hands together, Luke said, “It’s my duty to close the car doors for both you and Mr. Mason!”

All of a sudden, it hit him.

Zoe looked at ease when he put both of them in the same sentence. He wa