And Theo was staring at her, unable to hold back his smile.
Dani was in her element. The wide grin on her face brought out the sparkle in her eye. He wished she could spend the next week in this building, scouring the shelves. The Main Library in the old Ryerson Building back in Grand Rapids where she worked was a cool building and all, but this?
This was like working in a zoo and then finally visiting the Sahara. Like eating at Olive Garden and then finally traveling to Italy.
The urge to take her to every library in the entire world came over him to see this wonderment in her eyes again.
“I…I don’t even know where to start,” Dani said, giddy as a schoolgirl.
“I will see if we can get access to their rare Greek collections room,” Andreas said. “That’s going to be the best place to find evidence of Papantonis’s birthplace.”
“What should we do while you’re doing that?” Dani asked.
“Here,” Theo said, pointing to a chair in front of a computer. “Let’s search the catalog.”
Dani sat in front of the computer, but her face instantly dropped. “It’s in Greek.”
“I’ll help you, babe,” Theo said as he reached for another chair and sidled up to her.
“If you see anything that looks interesting, wait here for me,” Andreas said.
Andreas and Theo gave each other the subtlest of nods and then Andreas took off in the direction of the main desk. Theo watched him as he walked away, trying to see where he was going. But Theo could feel Dani’s eyes on him.
“What?” he finally asked, looking her way.
“You’re watching him like a hawk,” she said.
“I just want to make sure we know where he’s going,” Theo said, turning his attention to the computer.
“Oh, don’t worry, I’ve got my eye on him,” Dani said, suggestively.
Theo snapped his gaze to Dani. She wasn’t still interested in him, was she? Not after everything that happened last night—and this morning?
“I’m kidding,” she said, laughing. But Theo didn’t laugh in return. “What? Still jealous?” she asked, smirking.
“No, Juicy, I’m not jealous,” he said with a scoff.Please.
“You sure? Maybe we weren’t convincing last night.”
“We were convincing,” he said point-blank. “I mean, what? Should we be making out in the library? Because if that’s what we need to do, I’m game.”
Dani gasped. “That’s sacrilege!” she said with a playful gasp.
“What? Making out in the library?”
“Yes! You can’t desecrate such a holy place.”
Theo laughed. “Please. Like you’ve never made out in a library,” he said, tossing her anI don’t believe youlook.
“Never.”
Hmm. For some reason, this was surprising.
Well, not forsomereason. For lots of reasons. Dani was never one to shy away from public displays of affection.
“How is that possible?” he asked. “You spend more time in the library than anyone else I know.”
“Okay, first off, Ihaveto spend my time in the library because it’s my job. But even still, just because I spend a lot of time in the library doesn’t mean Imakeoutwith people in it. I mean, I’ve never known someone who spent so much time playing in the dirt on archaeological digs—”
