Wonderful story! Thank you!

Wonderful, perfectly in character with the added advantage of allowing us some insight into the hidden thoughts.

"The trouble with this specific woman was that she fascinated him. She was clever as well as beautiful and she could see right through all his tricks. He'd try something that seemed, to him, rather clever and sneaky, and she'd give him a pitying look and shake her head. He'd try his blue eyes and she'd counter with brown and those dark and lovely eyes would completely disarm him."
Extremely well expressed.

The meshing and meeting is there but not yet making contact, til that one perfectly placed line.
""Stranger things have happened, Mr Steele." she said."

Wonderful read, I really enoyed it.