DANCE LESSONS
~NATHANIEL'S POV~
I found Tessa in the living room, staring at her laptop screen with the kind of concentrated panic usually reserved for natural disasters.
"What's wrong?" I asked, setting down my coffee and settling into the chair across from her.
We'd been maintaining careful distance for three days now...ever since our "professional boundaries" conversation…and I was getting tired of pretending I didn't miss her.
"The Blackstone Foundation Gala," she said without looking up. "It's tomorrow night."
"Right. The charity event where we need to make our second major public appearance as an engaged couple." I'd been dreading it for entirely different reasons. "What about it?"
She finally looked at me, and I saw something close to terror in her hazel eyes. "There's going
