Sophie blinked. “You’re the driver?”
Oliver nodded, tipping his non-existent hat. “At your service, ma’am.”
She was stunned for a moment. It had been a while since she last saw Oliver Blackwood. They had been inseparable as kids, but they naturally drifted apart as they grew older.
Sophie and Oliver used to be grouped together as fellow gifted kids. Then Oliver enrolled in a boarding school abroad when they were twelve. As a kid, he was smart, sharp, showing boundless potential. But when Oliver came back again on the eve of Sophie’s high school graduation, he was … different.
Not less intelligent, no. If anything, Sophie could swear that he was sharper than before. But the serious kid was now going around parties. His neat, tailor-fit clothes turned into comfortable casual shirts. His
