Chapter 34
I wasn’t sure how I had ended up in this situation.
One minute, I was grumpily sitting at my desk, running on barely three hours of sleep, and the next, I was being whisked away on a shopping trip by none other than Evelyn Blackwell.
The same Evelyn I had spent days assuming was Adrian’s girlfriend.
She was effortlessly elegant, a woman who carried herself with a kind of ease I could never match. I had expected her to ignore me at best.... or be subtly condescending at worst.... but instead, she had smiled at me and asked if I’d accompany her.
Now, standing in the middle of an upscale boutique, I was regretting all my life choices.
Evelyn circled me like a fashion critic, her sharp eyes assessing every inch of me. “You’re beautiful, Ivy.”
I shifted uncomfortably. “Uh… tha
