CHAPTER 283

“Thank you,” Talia said, turning in her seat to face Parker.

They were sitting in his car in the garage of their apartment building after having spent a couple of hours driving around the city in search of other tiny art installations.

Parker shrugged and smiled. “It was nothing.”

Talia reached out and laid her hand on his arm. “It wasn’t nothing. You did all this research for me. I thought…” She shook her head and looked away from him.

He laid his hand over hers. “You thought what?”

“I thought you would think my interest in miniatures was childish and trivial. I didn’t expect you to encourage it.”

She looked back at him. It was dim in the underground garage, but she could see him clearly enough, and the way he was looking at her made her heart flutter. No one had looked at her like that before.

“Why would you think that?” he asked.

She shrugged, not looking away from him. “You weren’t very keen on it when I first mentioned it. Plus, my interest