Chapter 20: A Date with a Genius

Luke hadn’t known at the time what Rob and the other guys were talking about when they said Hallie was a ‘special’ girl. Maybe just specially reckless when it came to choosing fake boyfriends?

But now he realized, there was something about her, a kind of spark that burned in her amber eyes when she started helping Eloise with the charity project. She had passion, and lots of it.

Maybe he just hadn’t seen it before because the way her oblivious family treated her had put her into a subdued state, but he was seeing it now.

The young woman sitting in the driver’s seat, so tantalizingly close to him, was not just pretty; she was also smart and ambitious, even if she didn’t always have the confidence to express her real self.

He almost felt guilty about the date he had planned with that gorgeous woman he’d met at the dance, Tessa. She was a friend of Hallie’s friend Amber. He hoped that it was a distant enough acquaintance that Hallie wouldn’t find out about it.