Moments like these, she wished a divine intervention would take away their focus from her, but no such thing happened and their curious gaze remained on her.

She giggled nervously as her mind wandered to the first day she ran into his office with the diamond necklace while being chased by the police. She remembered him calling out to her and asking her what she was looking for. And she remembered how intense his green gaze was even as they settled on hers and how, despite not knowing her, related to her with a slight difference. He didn’t judge her based on the state he found her, not with his...