Chapter 18

• FALLING INTO HER
• Scott Dunstable cursed himself and forced his attention back on the report he was working on. It was overdue, which was totally out of character for him. Try as he might, the numbers and letters kept falling out of focus and his mind kept drifting back to her. Caryn was the cause of Scott’s problem.
• Caryn Blake was tiny. Not quite five feet tall, she was physically immature for her age. She wore her platinum blonde hair in pigtails, and she had big round glasses through which she peered myopically with enormous blue eyes when she talked to him. Her face was pale and she was finely featured, as if she had been chiseled out of a block of marble. A slim, almost boyish figure gave her an overall look that would place her as a young fifth grader to the unknowing observer rather than the graduating senior that she was. She was unarguably brilliant and very mature for an eighteen-year-old, which made her appearance doubly confusing.