"Come on Will, get in the picture."
"No."
Gigi lowered her camera and glared at Darcy.
"Come on. I promised my followers I would document my trip in the city today. I'll even let you take us to that hole in the wall Chinese food restaurant you're always trying to drag me to."
"I don't negotiate with little sisters."
Gigi sighed and turned back to Lizzie who was now playing with the lobsters she had been posing next to.
"What's that little lobster, who is that crab over there? Why that's a rare Mr. William Darcy. To catch one on film is a feat indeed."
Darcy glanced over at Lizzie with the same warm, exasperated smile she had thought he reserved just for Gigi.
"I don't negotiate with pretty girls either."
Lizzie felt his words hit her somewhere deep inside and warmth spread through her quickly. But that was nothing to the effect of the open, piercing stare he was giving her. She thought she had mastered her reaction to the looks he'd been directing toward all week. But then again, she hadn't expected glasses to make his stare so much more intense.
She was still determined to not be intimidated by Darcy, no matter how many times he unsettled her with his direct attentions. Her courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate her…or at least that's what she was telling herself as she looked from Darcy to Gigi.
"Alright Gigi let's get this photo, I want to see the seals." She refused to acknowledge the way her voice broke on the word alright and the fact that Darcy was now looking at her with a small, hopeful smile.
