The silence between them stretched like a rope about to snap, the waterfall's sound filling the void with its constant roar, but not even that could muffle the accelerated pulse in Cassian's chest. He was exposed, not just by her presence, but by the way his body betrayed every discipline lesson he'd internalized over the years. Ivy, still in the water up to her waist, didn't move to cover herself or retreat. Her eyes, those green eyes sharp as blades, fixed on him with an intensity that ...