Ironically, Kade was the one to blame for this. He had planted the idea that Arden looked at her as more than just his boss, and now, in her subconscious, that idea seemed to have taken root.
Even if Arden’s admiration turned out to be only platonic and not romantic, it still wasn’t every day that she inspired such feelings in anyone. It was even rarer that, between her and her brother, she was the one who was being preferred.
This was something she would never tell another soul, but it had made her so happy to hear that Arden didn’t give Kade the time of day when she asked him to pick up the latter from the airport last week. Before then, she hadn’t really been so sure that Kade’s magnetic personality wouldn’t have worked on Arden either.
Not only did it not work, it had turned out, b
