Of course, he likes her; how could she not tell, if it wasn’t her cold attitude and indifference towards him, the whole house would have probably picked his interest in her.
Ian has never tried to hide that he was attracted to her, from his persistent gaze that follows her every movement to his actions of blatantly holding her in the middle of the courtyard where any passing person could have seen her.
Maybe that was what scared her; Ian seemed indifferent to everything else but with her, he laid his emotions bare like the sky flashing its rainbow colours after a heavy rain.
Even though Avery had tried her best to discourage his obvious interests by remaining cold to him and constantly reminding him of his place, she didn’t think she’d falter so soon.
After a call with Lewis about the
