Okay, really attractive. If the situation had been different—and I hadn’t just found myself tangled up in the arms of Pearce—I might have considered him a possibility for dating.
Which, I really hadn’t been doing so I wouldn’t have given him much thought, but he was difficult not to notice.
His beauty gave me one moment of ignorant, fleeting hope that maybe he wasn’t like the rest of them. Call it superficial, but sometimes, you really could judge a book by its cover. Unfortunately, that was a little harder to gauge in real life, especially when it came to people. My heart dropped quickly when he spoke again.
“I expect you to be a hard ass, Rio, but not obscene.” He let his liquid gaze smooth to me. It was full of what I might normally call happiness, except that something about him was
