Persia sucked down a sharp breath. “Wow.”
“Yeah. Wow. That’s exactly how I feel. I’m sorry I’ve been keeping stuff from you, Persia. But I just… I wanted to keep things on the downlow. Everything’s changed since the kidnapping though. It’s like Ryan realizes how much he feels for me.”
“That’s so sweet,” Persia murmured. “I can’t believe he saved you… I mean, I thought they’d stopped making gentlemen now.”
“Yeah. Me too,” she confessed.
“How did he save you?”
“He knocked Jaime’s gun out of his hands,” she told her, half-lying. Ryan had mauled Jaime, killing him in the passenger seat of her SUV.
Yeah, that was a helluva memory to have of a first date.
She closed her eyes and wished like hell she could tell Persia everything.
Gulping, and feeling very overwhelmed all of a sudden, she
