ALEX.
I stared at Niko like he had just spoken in another language, like he had said something he wasn’t supposed to.
“Go shopping with me?” I repeated faintly. “No. No, Niko. I can’t do that, I’m sorry.”
The refusal came out fast, instinctive, sharp enough that even I was startled by it. My chest tightened immediately after, panic blooming where excitement should have been.
He frowned. “Why not?”
“Because your mother will skin me alive.”
“Because this is moving too fast.”
“Because I’m terrified.”
I wasn’t supposed to be doing this, to be in love with my employer. I was here on contract, and even though Niko had insisted that he wasn’t letting me leave, and even though I couldn’t deny the fact that I was as madly in love with him as he was with me, I couldn't just bring myself to a
