‘Maybe she’s thinking to stare me into submission,’ Nick reflected maliciously.
Nick waved toward the door once more, and the woman accepted the invitation. She entered the cottage without a word. It looked like she had decided to wait and see what the man was going to do next.
Nick imagined that the best thing he could do was to reassure her that he didn’t have any evil intentions toward her. The man let her go ahead and closed the door behind them.
Then, he walked around the woman, careful not to touch her and show her the way to the first room of the cottage, which played the role of a living room and a dining-room at the same time.
Darcy looked warily around, and her pulse slowed down. She didn’t know why, but when her eyes swept around the room full of mismatched pieces of furnitu
