CHAPTER SEVEN: Dinner Instead
Emily had been entirely prepared for many things tonight.
Embarrassment.
Crushing regret.
Terrible life choices. Possibly an evening in a local prison cell.
She had not, under any circumstances, been prepared for a regular dinner. An actual dinner. A completely normal dinner.
Well... as normal as a dinner could possibly be when it directly involved a man like Ryan Blackwood.
The powerful executive was currently sitting directly across from her in a lavish private dining suite, calmly eating a plate of pasta like an ordinary, regular human being.
It felt incredibly suspicious. Very suspicious.
Emily narrowed her eyes behind her long lashes, watching him closely.
Ryan looked up from his glass of red wine, catching her intense gaze. "What?"
"You eat pa
