Chapter Twenty-Four
The room fell into an awkward silence as all eyes turned to Sofia. Ian lifted his eyebrows in amused surprise and kept his eyes locked on hers. As heat rose in her cheeks Sofia tore her gaze away from Ian and searched the room for any reason that she could leave. On the buffet table she spied the almost empty cheese puff tray.
"Cheese puffs," she said. Mild confusion flickered across everyone's faces. Especially Ian's. "We're almost out of cheese puffs. I'll go check on that."
"We can ring for–" Bridget started to explain that there were servants to help them with things like cheese puffs.
"I'll check on it," Sofia insisted. She grabbed the almost empty tray and made her escape out the door. In her haste to leave she moved the tray so swiftly that two cheese puffs r
