FINDING ELENA
Until now, she'd refused payment for her culinary services, insisting that the protection and care she and Sky had received were more than she could repay.
If she’d read Ary correctly in the kitchen, then his carefully walled heart had finally shown a crack.
Yet Elena's emotional unavailability made her a risk to him because for all her light, she might not be willing to love again.
Julia knew, with a mix of thrill and apprehension, that this delicate spark was about to ignite a fire neither of them could fully control.
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Later that day, Ary leaned back in his seat and shut his eyes. But even in the darkness behind his eyelids, Elena’s smiling face appeared, sharp and impossibly vivid.