100| HIS, OR NOT HIS?

PERSY

For a good amount of time, I watched him, thinking that he would probably laugh out loud and tell me that this whole 'madness' he was sitting was a big joke. A very expensive one at that.

I waited and waited, but he said nothing, just stayed there, watching me like a hawk, his eyes pleading with me to say yes.

"Aiden, I cannot..." I trailed off when he took my hand in his, rubbing circles on the back of my palm in the gentlest manner. For ...