“It reminded me of your eyes,” Allan said, looking a little puzzled by my lack of reaction. “Do you like it?”
“It’s beautiful,” I replied at once. The last thing I wanted him to think was that I didn’t appreciate how stunning the necklace was. Only…. “I just — you really shouldn’t have gotten me something so…so….”
I’d been about to say “expensive,” but that would have sounded crass. Honestly, I’d never had anyone make such an extravagant gesture for me before, so I had no idea how I was supposed to act.
He said, “I wanted to get you something. Don’t think about ‘should’ or whether it’s appropriate or not. Do you like it?”
“I love it,” I replied. After all, he’d called me the only honest woman in L.A. just moments before. Probably, it wouldn’t have been very smart to start lying then an
