Smile. Be cool. It’s nothing more than just a simple lunch date with a guy interested in her. She could do this. She’d made it through a milkshake date with Mitch. This wasn’t any different, was it? It will be fine.
Roxie’s pep talk did nothing to calm her racing heart. Thank God Alaric wasn’t holding her hand, or it would have been embarrassing to try and pretend that sweaty palms were a normal thing. God, she had no idea why she was panicking so much. It wasn’t as though she was making a commitment by accepting the lunch date.
“Do you know what you are having?” Alaric's gentle voice cut through the haze of her thoughts.
Roxie’s eyes snapped up and widened with the horrifying realization that the waiter was standing at their table, ready to take their orders. The thing was, Roxie had
