CHAPTER TEN: Expensive Flowers
Emily Hart spent the next three days trying very, highly hard not to think about Ryan Blackwood.
Unfortunately, Ryan Blackwood made that entirely impossible.
Every single place she looked in the city, something persistently reminded her of him. The artisanal designer coffee she couldn't afford to buy. The expensive tailored suits she saw on businessmen downtown. The ridiculous, rich laugh she kept hearing on a loop inside her own head. The baffling fact that he had randomly paid off her mother's active hospital bill through a blind trust.
The man was rapidly becoming a massive problem. A very attractive problem. Which was somehow ten times worse.
Emily let out a heavy, defeated sigh and buried her face flat into her open literature textbook.
Across the
