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“I won’t.”
“Okay, okay. I’m sorry I asked. But I still want to come to the exhibition.”
She stood up, dusted down her jeans. Flicked her ponytail over her shoulder and blinked from behind her lenses at him. “I have to go, there’s a customer waiting.”
Bright blue eyes held her captive. “What time on Sunday?”
Alice sighed. She’d just said no to an Aaron request, an almost unheard-of phenomenon. He’d apologised. He seemed to accept she wouldn’t do it. What harm could there be in going out with him on Sunday? Even if she had been doing her best to back off lately. The realisation that if it hadn’t happened between them by now it probably never would had simply been getting too painful.
Alice thinned her lips. “Three o’clock.”
“Great, I’ll take you out for a bite after.”
“We’ll see,” she said as coolly as she could, stalking past him into the shop and sighing with relief when she was out in the open again.
Aaron ducked past as she was answering the customer’s questions about Daphne du Maurier hardbacks. His eyes under his blond fringe danced with their familiar mischief.
“See you at three on Sunday. Outside the art gallery,” he called out.
He thought he’d won. She’d have to fortify her heart with steel girders if she was going to resist him.
Alice kept smiling sweetly at the customer and pretended she hadn’t heard.
