SHE PRETENDED TO BE A BAD GIRL TO ESCAPE A BLIND DATE — BUT THE MAFIA BOSS SAW THROUGH HER IN MINUTES

on the faucet just to hear something else.

After a moment, Silven crossed the kitchen and shut it off with a steady hand before she wasted water out of irritation.

He was close enough that she smelled clean soap beneath rain and the dark dry edge of his cologne.

“Why gardenias?” she asked again before her mind could catch her mouth.

He looked down at her.continue reading …