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Hayley certainly didn’t look as though she’d just spent half the night evading demons and traveling down dark highways. No, her fair skin was positively luminous, and Levi liked the way she’d drawn her hair back into a low, loose ponytail, with a few wisps falling around her face. The style called more attention to her fine, high cheekbones, the delicate lines of her jaw and chin.
They sat in the Mine Café, which at that hour of the morning wasn’t particularly crowded. The restaurant was built slightly below street level, so the window in the room where they sat afforded them a view of the wheels of parked cars, and the feet of passersby, and not much else.
Not that Levi minded. Right then, all he wanted was to look at Hayley.
She’d ordered iced tea, saying that she’d already had co
