The Way He Looked at Me
He'd told me once, years ago young enough that he'd pronounced it Theo-en, drawing it out in two careful syllables that seventeen was his favorite number.
It had done something to me then.
It was doing worse things to me now.
Vincent padded across the living room to the fish tank in bare feet, damp hair, wearing that easy unhurried expression of a man who had no idea he was the center of anyone's universe. He moved like a regular, uncomplicated person. Like someone with good days and bad days, strong points and irritating ones.
Like someone I was supposed to have gotten out of my system.
"There you are," he said softly, leaning toward the tank. "Look at you, Raggie. More beautiful than e
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