QUOTE : He caught my eye a few times over the remainder of dinner, and every time they connected, he’d tear away and look back down at his plate. His pale cheeks started to grow red, and after several exchanges, he stopped looking away and kept staring back at me. Haunted green eyes glued to my cheerful blues with a look of surrender. I smiled kindly at him at some point, and his eyes flickered down to my mouth, examining the way my lips widened. It was almost like…like he didn’t know what I was doing.