So yeah, maybe I was lying about thinking he was older, but I wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of confirming his silent accusation. His smile shifted into the realm of a smirk, like he knew I was lying. I gave him my version of the same smile, abandoning my “no expectations” policy for the prospect of pissing him off. I was tempted to glare at the tipped smile aimed at me, but I didn’t want to lead him to the impression I cared. To look at the bastard, you’d think he was Scandinavian-blond hair, blue eyes, commanding frame-but his accent was too sharp to hail from the land of Vikings. It was European, but I couldn’t nail down the country. Though it was faint, I could just make out an accent. “You’re younger than I thought you’d be.” He broke the silence first. Like it was his throne and he was just waiting for minions to come bow before him. I was playing with it by agreeing to this kind of arrangement with him.Įven the way he lounged in the chair was smug. A woman did not touch a guy like him unless she wanted him to be her undoing.

I wanted to wipe the cocky smile off his face, but that would have required touching him and even I wasn’t gutsy enough for that. The kind of smile that made me feel like I was being trifled with and made the punch line of a hundred jokes I had yet to hear.

It was the kind that made it seem like he was in on some secret I wasn’t privy to. He hadn’t stopped smiling at me, and it wasn’t the friendly kind of smile. After too many near-kisses, Nina convinces herself that hating Max is better than loving him, and the more she gets to know this soon-to-be-husband of hers, the more she discovers just how very much she truly, madly, and deeply. Nothing could go wrong.īut what they didn’t consider was chemistry, and Nina and Max have no shortage of it. They planned it all, from the story of their first meeting to the date of their divorce. Both of them have experienced the sting and sham of love and have no intentions of falling victim to it twice. Nina can’t let herself fall in love with the man she’s going to marry.

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