She reached out and touched his arm again. Even though they were just friends, they'd still been intimate and she was still drawn to him physically. Even now, just the simple fact that he gave his companionship even at a time such as this, the fact that he still cared about her meant more than he knew. "Thank you," she murmured. There was a sense of ease that came over her in that instance, that he could still be counted on even though they were not meant to be more than lovers for a time.

When he mentioned Tristan for a husband, she shook her head, and then when Douglas came up, she did ponder that one. In a perfect world, a man like Douglas Gordon would ask for her hand and she might think her father would say "yes" to that one. She was attracted to him, no doubt about that one. She was magnetized to him more so than Viktre.