Dolt, he told himself. She was trying not to fall off. But his mind had been full of pent-up terror, and his arms had been full of the sweetest, roundest curves he’d ever encountered, and when he’d looked down at her mouth, he’d thought of— A great many things, most of which weren’t achievable on horseback. He prayed—an actual, carefully worded prayer to the divine—that she had not recognized his abrupt and violent erection.
