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My mouth opens, but she saves me before I can embarrass myself.
“This is off-the-wall crazy, but would you be my date to a Regency Ball? I kind of told my sorority sister you were my date because she wouldn’t leave me alone…” She keeps talking, the nerves clear in her voice as she explains her situation.
“I would love to,” I cut in.
“You’ll do it?”
“It seems like a perfectly logical thing for us to do.”
I mouth the words perfectly logical and mimic gagging. Who am I?
“Great.” I can hear the smile in her voice as she goes over the details and says goodbye.
“Was that Phoebe?”
Elijah’s tone holds nothing I can read.
I have two choices. One, lie to my best friend and bury myself deeper with each lie. Or be honest and let things fall how they’re meant to fall.
“She has a Regency Ball coming up—”
His face lights up and he takes the plans from me. “Phoebe told me about that. She planned the whole thing.”
“And she asked me to go with her.”
Elijah’s smile only grows. “Great.”
“Great?”
“Yeah? The two of you won’t shut up about those books. A dance where you can nerd out about it sounds great.”
I eye him. “You’re not weirded out?”
“Do you want me to be weirded out?”
I shake my head and back out of his office. “Not at all.”
His laughter rings through the hallway as I rush to my desk to plan. I type out a detailed list for Gwen to take care of while I’m gone and contemplate scrapping the whole thing. She knows what to do and I’m pretty sure she’d have an issue with me coddling her with a paint-by-numbers task list.
I need to put all my focus on Phoebe.
The dance is in a week, and this is my chance to make up for letting her walk away yesterday.
I won’t screw it up.
Chapter Five
Phoebe
“Ben Steel is your date? Ben Steel?”
“Yes, Marjorie.” I bite back a sigh, knowing it’ll just keep her in my room longer.
I have so many calls I have to make, and I need her to get out of my space so I can think.
“He’s a billionaire, right?” She runs her hand along my doorframe and groans.
I make a small non-committal noise.
