Rowan’s POV
I was surprised by the audacity of this woman, Liora. To think after rejecting and shutting her down, she didn’t shy away or curse out in anger. Instead, she was trying to learn her mistakes and fix them. That had me impressed. She was different from the rest of the women that I had seen, it made me more intrigued by her. She sat down there in the corner, trying to fix the work that I had condemned myself. I looked at the expression on her face and she looked so very serious.
Saul had already retreated to handle calls. I’d expected the silence to grind her down eventually, silence, pressure, and the clock ticking louder with each hour. But she didn’t flinch.
Every time I looked up, there she was, brows drawn in concentration, hair slipping loose around her face as he
