shouldn’t have this much turmoil in her heart. Especially after the way her family seemed to relax their guard around Roark the moment he spoke to Yulia. She couldn’t believe Darek would really let him —them —take out a group of tourists. She had to admire the sheer courage it had taken for him to show up at Friday night’s campfire. She should have put up a bigger fight for him at the beginning. It brought back the words he’d spoken at the coffee shop that first day. Extreme doesn’t begin to describe what I’d do to win you back. And when he’d told the story of that night under the Eiffel Tower —how they’d together captured the perfect shot —he had no idea that she would have never been in that place, never had the courage to venture out, if he hadn’t pushed her. Apparently, however, he was also serious about not kissing her until she knew he meant it because when she walked him out to his car, he hadn’t leaned in, hadn’t pulled her to himself. He’d pressed a gentlemanly kiss to her hand that left her heating from the inside and wanting him to stay.
