It was what he told himself he wanted, and yet at the same time, he was uncomfortable with it. He felt like one big ball of exposed nerves. It was a feeling quite unlike any other that he had experienced for a very long time. Added into that, every time he looked at her, he wanted to grab her and pull her into him so he could bury his nose in her hair, and he was completely and thoroughly distracted during the tour of the school. He had managed to keep his cool through the entire incident at her apartment. Tony had the whole of the Urban Dwellers investigative resources looking to find out how the black rose ended up on Maggie’s doorstep. He had received a report from Samuel, his head of security, just before they landed. Samuel said they had reviewed the practically non-existent footage from Maggie’s apartment as well as video footage from street cameras around Maggie’s building. There was nothing. It was as if whoever planted the flower was some sort of phantom.
