Una felt her ears grow warm, and she wasn't entirely sure why. No, she was sure; she just wasn't going to dwell on it. A sidelong glance just as he licked his fingers only made her ears warmer.

She reached for the bag of peppermint bark. "You could spend all day guessing at a person's motivations and never get anywhere," she said. Especially his did not, she felt, need to be said.