When Nicole got back to her room, she couldn’t sit still. Pacing around her cozy space, she sorted through every delicious detail of the night, committing everything to memory. What an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime experience.
She couldn’t do that again. She couldn’t! It was deceptive. But was it deceptive, now that they’d established “the box”? They both knew where things stood. She wasn’t deceiving him.
Oh, who was she kidding? Of course she was deceiving him. Until she told him all about the Summit Group and their plans for the lodge, she was keeping something a secret from him.
An idea stole into her mind, so tempting it almost made her cry.
What if she told Kai the truth? What if she laid it all out there—the coming offer, her part in it, its huge benefits for the Rockwells? The
