Other than a text saying how much he’d enjoyed their date, Darius deliberately left Nathalie alone for a few days to think things through. She’d told him she wanted time. So he forced himself to give it to her, even though the need to hear her voice was like an ache inside him.

As for Zion, Darius didn’t want her brother to think he’d been forgotten, so they’d talked cars over Skype a couple of times, and had emailed, as well. Darius figured that Nathalie must be reading his emails because she’d said Zion sometimes needed help with the computer. He didn’t use big words, but everything was spelled correctly,...