Neither of us spoke for the first few minutes of the drive. Lucas sat across from me in the back of the car, watching me with an expression I couldn't quite place, and I sat with my arms folded, still turning over everything I'd watched happen at that party. "You're quiet," he said finally. "Just thinking." I replied flatly "About what." He asked "About how many women in that room seemed to think they had some claim on you." I said it lightly, though it didn't come out as light as I intended. "Isabela on your arm. That woman from the Madrid office who kept finding excuses to touch your sleeve. I lost count after four." His mouth twitched, the beginning of a smile he was clearly trying to hold back. "Jealous, Signora DiGiallorenzo?" "I didn't say that." "You didn't have to." He shift

