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London.”
    “I’ve always wanted to go to London. I admit I’m in love with any show or movie created by the BBC. Do you go home often?”
    “No.” He cleared his throat. He was being short. He knew he needed to keep the conversation flowing lest he lose her interest. Such a thing was unacceptable.
    No woman had captivated him in such a way since Mia ripped out his heart. His jaw tightened at her memory. He didn’t want to think of her ever again, and yet she kept popping into his mind when he least wanted it. He’d found himself comparing any woman whom he might potentially be interested in to her dark beauty.
    “Oh, I see,” Sohana said. “I haven’t been back to India since I was a child. So I suppose I can understand that.”
    “Lovely. We’re both immigrants then,” he said with a lopsided grin.
    She giggled which made his grin widen. He’d seldom heard a more alluring sound.
    “I wouldn’t say our circumstances were quite the same,” she said as they approached the stairs at the back of the level that led to the rooftop garden.
    “Why not? My childhood was what they based the movie Oliver Twist off of.”
    She giggled again and he wanted nothing more than to pull her into the darkness of one of the private rooms and kiss her in a way she’d never been kissed. Arthur scolded himself. He let his arm slip from under hers and motioned for her to go up the stairs ahead of him. He needed to remind himself that he needed her professional skills, and that was it.
    That’s what he kept telling himself, but watching her walk up the stairs, he couldn’t help but eye her perfectly round rear.
    “Yes, you and your sister with the expensive diamonds were poor orphans.”
    “That’s right. We stole ‘em,” he said with a mock cockney accent.
    “Oh I see. You two are really diamond thieves. Makes sense.”
    “International secret spies actually.”
    “Oh boy,” she said as they neared the top of the stairs. “I hope you won’t have to kill me now. I swear I can keep a secret.”
    “I think you’re fine. I can tell you can keep a secret.”
    “Wow,” Sohana said once they emerged from the dark staircase to the beauty of the rooftop gardens.
    He met her at the top of the stairs and clasped his hands behind his back. “This area is one of my favorites.”
    “No kidding. Is this Narnia?”
    Arthur grinned again. “You haven’t seen the best part yet.”
    She spun around in her heels, taking in the flood of beauty, and the aromas of the different types of flowers that sprouted from intricately designed flower pots, vases, and directly from the rich soil.
    Her gray eyes seemed to sparkle in the moonlight when she looked back at him.
    Something stirred in his heart whenever she looked at him straight on. It was as if she were a dream, or like they had known each other for longer. He didn’t even notice the other half-naked women walking around in packs when she was around.
    His eyes lowered to her mouth as she smiled.
    “Show me,” she said.
    Arthur resisted the urge to take her hand. He nodded, and kept his hands folded behind his back. “Certainly,” he said, taking the lead down one of the meticulously laid stone pathways that led to his favorite area. “I’ll show you around The Club, but you must show me around Karim. There is still much that I haven’t seen, and since I’ve decided to live here for a while, I want to know everything there is to know about this place.”
    “Can you do anything without making a deal?”
    Her question made him pause. He glanced over his shoulder, and watched her stand beside him. She wasn’t embarrassed by her question. She looked at him straight on.
    “Can you?”
    Arthur unclasped his hands. “Of course I can,” he said. He wasn’t used to being questioned. “This way.”
    “Well that’s good to know. I’ll show you around my city.”
              “You’re too kind,” he said with a smirk. Her attitude was actually refreshing.