Kat said. Until she saw him standing there, she wasn’t positive she actually wanted him to show. If he did, she wasn’t sure she was brave enough to go through with her plan. If he didn’t, she would have failed Luke. Her stomach was in knots over the whole ordeal. But when she saw Geoff confidently stride into the portrait gallery, her anxiety began to diminish. He was so achingly handsome, but at the same time, familiar. How could he make her physically jumpy and at the same time cause her soul to feel strangely calm? “I could never refuse such a titillating proposal. I must admit, I am quite intrigued,” Geoff said. “You must think me forward to ask for your audience, alone,” Kat explained. “You certainly have caught my attention. But this is not the first time we have been alone together,” he said, “If you remember.” As if she could forget. She tried, but every night as she lay in bed fighting sleep, the cursed memory of the library kiss kept replaying in her head, keeping her body buzzing with unfulfilled promises.
