“But I don’t understand,” she said. “Why have you been following me all over the world? Why didn’t you just approach me before?”

“I’ve wanted to,” he confessed. “But I kept chickening out. I meant to in Frankfurt, but then you spotted me and I lost my nerve. I didn’t want you to think I was some sort of creepy stalker.”

“God forbid,” Eliot muttered.

Larry looked nervously at Eliot. “Then your bodyguard took off after me and I just panicked. And then there was that scary blonde in the dog costume…”

“Scary?” Parker reacted, her indignation coming through Sophie’s earbud loud and clear. “I was adorable.”

“My personal assistant,” Sophie explained. “She’s a furry.”