"I would apologize," Natalia tells him, but she's caught sight of a sudden break in the crowd, too, a small, dark space caught in the shadow of the taller rides. It's a place where a younger couple might take advantage of the quiet, and she could almost believe that the thoughts of any man on her arm would run in a similar vein, but the man on her arm is James, and...surely not.

"But that sounds entirely too enjoyable."