Lord Merrick's POV
I literally ran inside my room and jammed the door close behind me, my feelings flying all over the place.
I stood on my side of the door and breathed deeply.
What, I thought, was that.
I put my back against the door and I looked at the ceiling of my small inn room and I conducted a rapid internal inventory of my recent messed up decisions.
I had almost kissed Angel's sister.
My wife's sister.
The woman who had arrived in our lives just last week and had been, by any reasonable measure, the specific opposite of someone I should be developing any kind of - not that I had developed anything, this was just a proximity issue, this was the result of several days of close quarters and emotional intensity and the very charming quality of her eyes in low light…
Stop it.
