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The taxi had the heater on. As Sienna Thornton got in, the chill that had seeped into her bones started to fade, and she felt the warmth spread through her body.
"Where are we going tonight?" she asked.
Simon Forrester didn't answer directly, instead he said, "I noticed you're not usually this cold back home."
Sienna was momentarily distracted by the Arc de Triomphe zipping past the window, and she casually replied, "Being in a familiar environment gives a sense of security, so I don't feel the cold as much. In unfamiliar places, there's a psychological sensitivity to temperature changes you could call 'cold sensory sensitivity'."
Simon liked the way she had a roundabout way of putting things. Where others might use a few words to gloss over a topic, she would expand it into a few sentences.
