I had no idea what Luke had just ordered, but I figured I’d better just trust him and go with the flow. My surroundings almost overwhelmed me. What kind of strings had he pulled, and what kind of expense had he gone to, in order to procure this room for just the two of us? Under normal circumstances, it looked like the sort of space that would have been used for banquets or possibly small wedding receptions.
“You don’t do things by halves, do you?” I asked.
“Not usually, no,” he replied. “Besides, I wanted to take you out to dinner, but I also wanted some privacy.”
“Heck of a way to do it,” I said, waving at the slightly echoing chamber around us. From somewhere, I heard soft background music which sounded like a string quartet, but it couldn’t completely mask the slightly hollow sound
