For some reason, that made her laugh. "I think I'm pretty, but I'm nowhere near as beautiful as Karina is."

"Bullshit. You're extremely attractive," I told her, probably a tad more emphatically than necessary.

"You're just saying that to be nice," she snapped back.

"Like hell I am. Do you know how often I had to hear your name in the locker rooms at school? You developed pretty early on, and everyone noticed. And I promise that attention didn't wear off as you got older."

"Really? You never told me that." She sounded genuinely surprised.

"Would you have wanted me to tell you that? All I would have heard from...