QUOTE : Damn it, I want Noah Maxwell to care about me. I want a tiny bit of tenderness from this rough, gruff guy who most of the time can barely stand me. <br /><i>Keep dreaming, princess,</i> I tell myself in a mocking version of his harsh, drawling timbre.<br />But then I really <i>must</i> be dreaming, because his hand moves, hovering above mine with only a split second of hesitation before it closes over mine gently but authoritatively. <br />I bite my lip to fight the smile, but it comes all the same.<br />“Don’t make it weird, princess,” he says gruffly.