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I look down. Drawing circles on my dress. Avoiding Dean because when I look at him I want to glare, but my head already hurts enough.
A minute passes, or two. Maybe three.
“If the woman I loved told me she needed to take care of her family then I’d drop everything to take care of them with her.”
It reverberates through me.
Deep, masculine, and completely unfiltered.
Raw, next question.
Making the mistake of looking up—holy mother of freaking ducks—darkened moss reflects the turmoil flipping inside of my chest. The last time I felt this was when Nadine got married and left home. It’s unusual. It’s the feeling of change occurring.
We stare and stare (surprisingly, I don’t glare).
I’m captured. Hostage material. Yet, I’m gladly offering my wristsfor him to tie up. His words anchor me, swallowing—drowningme.
But any woman would feel the same way.
Men nowadays aren’t assuring to us nor are they self-assured.
Dean Vuk is a man from novels. He shouldn’t exist because what the heck happens to the girls who don’t get a man like him?They live happily because they don’t need to put up with his grumpy crap every day.
Even when he and Katarina walk back to the couch and switch places with Hina and Shaan, I think about his words.
Then when Austin announces Dean and Katarina as the winners to choose people for their grocery store team, Dean looks at me and I find myself wanting to look back at him but I’m feeling a certain kind of way. I can’t look at him until I’m positive that what I’m feeling is real and not my migraine messing with my ability to function.
It hasn’t been a full day yet and it might be too self-absorbed to think this but I’m getting a feeling that Dean Vuk, Head of Security at Vuk Securities, followed me all the way to Lucerne and I have no way of proving it.
CHAPTER 13
By the time we head outside, the sun has emerged into the lake…, and we’re left with the darkened hues of the sky to guide us. The moon is barely present, showing itself as a slither of a crescent.
Hina walks ahead, already unlocking the car and taking the seat in the back. Everyone else is chattering, making small conversation while crew members check the cameras they’ve set up near the rear-view mirror.
“Hands up if you don’t have your driver’s licence yet,” one of the men say into the megaphone. No one raises their hand except me.
“Does a G1 count?” I ask, sheepishly.
They shake their heads.
“You haven’t gotten your G2 license?” Rhys catches up to my steps, nudging his arm against mine.
It’s not my fault I had older siblings that took me everywhere. When it came for me to learn, it never happened. There’s been no reason for me to drive. Plus, Canada makes public transport more affordable than owning a car. A win if you ask me.
“It’s never been a priority.” Changing the subject because I don’twant to talk about this anymore, “Are you excited to see the city?”
Despite the house being on top of a mountain, it’s modern with three garages and two cars. A vast difference because skimming over the rugged road, and the overgrown grass, you can see the bright lights of the city illuminating the night sky. There’s a hint, a shallow wave of music slipping towards us, and there’s a lake beneath the Chapel Bridge pulsating with each new wave of wind.
But the view from up here is nothing compared to what it’ll be done there. I know it. Switzerland exists as a portal to another world, I’m sure of it. The second I landed, my insides swished and swooshed with each step. And Lucerne? It doesn’t fit in any category, but the one Fantasy novels are written in.
“I’ve actually been here once or twice, my parents are from Czechia and every holiday, they took us around. Switzerland was a common family vacation spot.”
We stop walking once we’re a foot away from the cars. I turn to face him. “Wow, that must’ve been magical. What's your favourite place?”
He runs a hand over his jaw. “Honestly, I’m more of a city guy. Is it wrong for me to say none?”
You visit countries in Europe and say none of them were your favourite? There is something wrong with you.
