Chapter 16
Summer
We ended up eating at a fancy steakhouse that had the best chocolate cake I’d ever tasted. The steak was good, but nothing compared to the dessert. “Are you going to start serving chocolate cake at the restaurant now?” Evan teased.
“I might have to. The only problem is that I’d probably gain fifty pounds if I did.” Hence, the reason we were walking around the gardens at the hotel. I had eaten so much I could barely move.
Evan chuckled. “You’d still be sexy if you did. For so long all I’ve ever been around are women who only cared about what they looked like. I almost thought that was going to be my life, a trophy husband, an endless parade of women who only wanted me to be in the spotlight.”
“I would rather be alone than live like that.”
“I basically was. At least u
