Everyone around them went pale with surprise.“No way. Are you for real?” someone muttered. Earlier, one of Travis’s friends had mentioned hearing that Nora showed up at the reunion and that someone was after her. They had all dismissed it. Nora was pretty, yes, but with Travis hovering like a protective bodyguard, who would dare approach her?Travis’s face darkened. “I tried before, but I was afraid she would hate it. Figure something out for me,” he said, half pleading.If this had been the old days, the others would have laughed, then joked about the sun rising from the wrong direction. But since they knew the full story about Nora and Travis, nobody was ready to treat the situation lightly anymore.At Nora’s table, people had been doing their best to give Ian and Nora space to talk. Ian, polished from his time abroad, spoke confidently. He had nothing off-putting about him, and Nora did not find him inappropriate. He even made a frank, gentlemanly pitch.“I know about yo
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