“What if they arrest you?”

“They won’t. They’ll make sure there wasn’t anything worse going on. Then they’ll tell him to sue me for the camera.”

“And if he does?”

“I’ll get him a new one.”

“I’ll buy him a new one,” she said. “He wouldn’t have been here if not for me.”

Seth waved her off. “You weren’t the one who broke it.”

“But you broke it because of me.”

“I’m responsible for my own decisions.”

She remembered saying something similar to him last night—although in a very different context—and wondered if he was referring to that. She wasn’t going to ask, though. “I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be.” They’d been out in the rain long enough that their hair was getting wet, causing his to curl at the ears and the nape of his neck. “That dude is a douchebag.”

“That’s the way most of them are,” she grumbled as they got back into the car. “It’s sort of a prerequisite of the job.”

A muscle moved in Seth’s cheek as he pulled up to the keypad, punched in the code and drove through the gate and down the winding drive to the cluster of buildings where they were staying.

“I’m sorry,” she said again as they got out. It wasn’t a very good ending to their brunch at his mother’s house, but the accident and its aftermath was part of her reality these days, and there was nothing she could do to change that.

He stopped her before she could hurry over to the guesthouse. “You know he’ll just come back, don’t you?”

She sighed. “He’ll try.”

“That was a bold move. Who knows what he’ll resort to next.”

She nibbled on her bottom lip as she imagined Kouretas lurking around, trying to catch her out and about. She wouldn’t be getting in the hot tub again, she knew that much. The backyard was too exposed. “He might flirt with the law, but I doubt he’ll break it outright.” She said that with more conviction than she felt. Even if he didn’t come onto the property—although she wouldn’t put it past him—he could use a telephoto lens to get the shot he wanted, which made her feel cornered. She was just weighing how far he might go when Seth shook his head.

“I wouldn’t take anything for granted. Especially now that he’s found you, and you’re mostly alone. Why don’t you get your things and move into the main house with me?”

Surprised, Tia sheltered her face from the rain. “What?”

“I won’t be able to protect you over there. You need to move into the main house so that you’re closer, and he has to deal with me if he wants to get to you.”