But if Bred was surprised, Johnathan was stunned. “She…loves me?”
Bred nodded.
“But how? I…I mean, she’s always acted like she hated me—”
“Hate can be a convenient excuse to deny a love you can’t face.”
“I…I can’t believe it.”
“Take my word for it, it’s true.”
“Has she told you this?”
Bred shook his head. “No, she doesn’t have to. I’m her twin brother; we were raised together and we’ve always been very close. I know her well enough to decipher the pattern. She is definitely falling in love with you.”
The two men drifted silently in the heated atmosphere of the Sauna. “But she’s always been so hostile,” Johnathan reiterated after a while.
“She was fighting it. I didn’t understand it myself, at first, but she must have found you attractive from the start. Her mind wouldn’t let her a
