Classes resumed on Friday, keeping me out of Blake's way. I managed to avoid him outside of lesson times. He knew it, however. I could see the concern in the way he watched me and the frown tugging his mouth.
The following day was Cleo and Reece's engagement party. Blake shut himself away in the study to write his speech then he had to help prepare at his parents' place. He arrived in a limo to pick us up and greeted me at the door. His gaze turned smoky when he saw me. "You look like a princess," he whispered in my ear when he kissed my cheek. "I like that dress on you." I wore a simple sapphire blue dress cut low at the front and flaring gently from the cinched waist. It was an old dress, but I'd always liked how it fit my figure.
"You look very dashing yourself." Indeed he did. I'd ne
