Chapter 8
It was better once they got to the club. Her guilty response for ignoring Ethan at the office was to erect twice the walls, deliberately shifting her attention to him as soon as they were on the stairs. She smiled, and she chattered, and she looped her arm through his, and though Ethan never said a word about her shameful behavior regarding Jesse’s pictures, it took most of dinner for him to seem like the same easygoing, charming man he normally was.
Emma supposed part of it was her fault. She shouldn’t have asked to stop by the office first to talk to Jesse about Derek’s phone call on their date night. Which, in hindsight, she really hadn’t done. She’d walked in, there hadn’t been a speck of awkwardness between her and Jesse in spite of the fact that they hadn’t spoken since t
