Max watched as Lark kept her attention focused between her father and Gracie. She truly was an incredible human being. Observing how she was doing everything she could to ease tensions, keep the conversation flowing and mood casual spoke to her kind heart.
He couldn’t stop thinking of her earlier words. She wanted him. He’d been trying to protect her, worried they were moving too fast, but he was done now. She was a grown woman and Doug was now out of her life, paid off like the leech he was.
He noted Heriberto Laredo coming back into the lounge and heading for the bar with two other men and he immediately tensed. It was apparent the man was hot for Lark, but nobody was going to encroach on the relationship he was trying to build with her.
He felt her grip his fingers under the table a
