“Never?”

“No.”

“And you didn’t plan this so I’d spill what I knew?”

“No.”

“And it’s because you didn’t want to take something under false pretenses that you’ve told—”

I nodded.

“And has it occurred to you that you’ve never even kissed me?”

“Naturally,” I said.

Her eyes were on mine now, and there was a steady, shining light I hadn’t seen in them before. She said, “I guess this is where we hit the jackpot, Donald.”

Chapter Fourteen