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little surprise the American girl is, Jaque thought. Hopefully, she will like what I propose.
    When she turned back to him with a happy grin on her pretty face, Jaque realized that he was interested in proposing more than a change of position, and he wondered what kind of trouble this was going to be.
    *
    The moment she laid eyes on Jaque LaMer again after two months, Heidi could feel herself turn back into that awkward girl at her graduation. Suddenly, she felt gawky and plain, like the little bookworm who could only watch the other students across the hallway.
    He had appeared so suddenly with a mysterious offer of a café trip on company time, and when he named her one of her favorite spots in the city, she had leaped at the chance without thinking about what it might mean.
    Now that they were seated at Angelo's outdoor patio looking out over deep blue water, however, her mind was full. She figured he hadn't brought her out to fire her, but after that, she wasn't sure what he had in mind.
    Jaque seemed to be in no hurry to initiate things. He ordered a dessert sampler for both of them as well as some of Angelo's famous milky tea, and then he turned to her speculatively.
    "The dress is a good choice," he said with a smile. "It makes you look like a Cassatt painting."
    She plucked at the fabric of her skirt, smiling a little. "I thought I was set with slacks and blouses, but Marisol convinced me that women in Athens were meant to have more style."
    She almost mentioned how she had found the dress during an amazing sale, hidden under a few other items and overlooked, but she stopped herself.
    "Anyway," she continued, her face blushing, "I bought a few dresses, and after wearing them in the summer heat, I don't think I can go back."
    "You look freer," he said. "Happier in general."
    "I don't think that's the dress," she said with a grin. "The job's amazing, Jaque. There's so much to learn, and when I write up reports for the sustainability of the industry, and even right down to the little parts, I feel like I'm making a difference."
    "Then you are going to love what comes next …"
    She listened intently as he explained his engineer's concerns as well as what she had said that they needed. She was already nodding along and realizing that the reports she had been doing, tweaked slightly, would help the engineering team do the magic that they needed to do to get a truly green LaMer yacht on the water.
    "So I think I'd like to bring you over to the main compound. It'll help you work more closely with the engineering team, and it will also help me figure out what I need to know. This is an interesting trend that I want to keep an eye on, and at this point, I am surprisingly uneducated about what a green yacht might need to look like."
    "Of course," she said with a smile. "I'll have to tell you, I'm stopping myself from telling you what it should look like right now, but I suppose that it can wait until I'm actually installed. This sounds like it's going to be incredible, thank you so much for thinking of me."
    For a moment, she was startled to see an odd expression cross his face. It seemed like a mix of amusement, pride, and something else. If she didn't know better, she would have said that it was desire, but that seemed unlikely in the extreme.
    He was a prince and the owner of a multimillion-dollar, multinational company. She was the girl he had hired fresh out of school to make sure that his yachts weren't hurting the environment. Even if she had finally managed to dress a little more like a professional adult and to learn more about the fascinating city that she had found herself in, they were an odd couple to say the least.
    "I'll be in better shape to understand what it is you're saying after I've gone over the reports you've been doing so diligently," he admitted. "However, I would like to take you out to dinner tonight. I have another few hours of work to do, but after that, I can come pick you up around five