“It can still be romantic,” Bailey said. “I didn’t think you brought me here so you could put a ring on my finger and we could shack up on a formal basis. I just…wanted to be with you.”
This reassurance made him give her a relieved smile. “And I wanted to be with you. I’m glad we can talk like this, that there aren’t any secrets between us.”
She was glad of it, too. She’d always been the kind of person who would rather hear the worst and get it over with. And what Nasim had just told her — it really wasn’t that bad. She’d never expected anything except a fun few weeks or months with him. They could enjoy one another and go on their separate ways once the excitement started to fade.
But if that was really the case, why did it feel so hard to fix a smile on her lips as she looked across t
