It took Kodi several strained seconds to recognize that the heavy, twisting sensation in the pit of her stomach was disappointment. Profound, two-ton, whale-sized disappointment.
“You must have been expecting someone else,” said Leonard, and he drew his hand back with a slow, protracted movement when she did nothing to receive it. “Would it be a stretch to assume that you thought I was Bishop?”
Kodi kept her mouth shut. Even if she didn’t mistrust him on the basis of everything that had happened so far - the first time the paparazzi had shown up was right alongside him, after all - he was just the kind of man she disliked from the get go.
He seemed a bit like Bishop in a couple respects as far as her instincts told her. Confident, definitely. Filthy rich and unafraid to show it. But th
