Eleanor
For a moment… just a fraction of a second, I froze.
I knew I had kept my face neutral, schooled my features into something calm and unreadable, but inside, my thoughts were colliding into each other so fast, I could barely keep up.
Had I just heard him right?
Had Nathan West; stoic, composed, never-does-anything-without-a-reason Nathan West, just introduced me to his mother as his woman?
It was ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.
And yet…
I felt the way the words settled in the room, shifting every single thing, and altering the energy between all of us.
For the briefest moment, no one spoke, no one breathed, and then, finally, my brain snapped back into place, forcing me to recover, to act.
So, I did the only thing I could think of. I smiled.
Not just any smile; one that
