"If I'd thought to be, I might have saved us both a lot of trouble," Roland acknowledged after a moment, and shrugged one shoulder. "I assumed if you wanted to fuck before now, you'd have done something about it." And that was perfectly frank. In her situation, he would have done something about it. Hells, if he hadn't been so busy tying himself in knots about feelings, he would already have done something about it. The only reason he'd had any hangups about it was that he hadn't been sure what else would get tangled up with it.

Shaking his head a little, he turned back to the door. "I'll be back in a few minutes."