The Highest Bid: An enemies to lovers, forbidden romance (The London Six Book 1) by L. Caldwell

Author:L. Caldwell [Caldwell, L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Chester

Evangeline grabs my hand as she jumps up onto a little wall, balancing on it with our hands entwined. I try not to pay much attention to how right it feels. Her hand is small and delicate compared to my large one, and she grabbed it so effortlessly, as if she has done it a million times before.

I welcome the soft touch because it feels natural, like our hands belong together. It makes me smile at how free she’s behaving. She asks the questions that are on her mind, and her actions aren’t stopped by any doubts about what other people will think of her.

It’s different, refreshing, and I like it.

“So, where are we going?” she asks for the fourth time.

“You’ll see.” She halts abruptly before groaning and throwing her head back. It only makes me chuckle at how cute she behaves. Her emotions aren’t hidden or hindered by anything. She breathes freely, and somewhere deep inside of me, I believe she feels safe and comfortable around me.

For the last ten minutes, the conversation has flown easily, but with every step closer to our destination, one question continues to scream loudly at me. When I ask that question, I fear that her smile will slip from her lips. I don’t want to suck the joy out of her. I want to divert her thoughts away from what just happened.

But I’m curious, and I know I’ll only question it for the rest of the week until she breaches the subject herself. I need to know how it went.

“So, how did it go?”

“How did what go?” she starts skipping again on that little wall. Her gold heels make me wince with how high and dangerous they look. How women can walk on those things blows my mind, even if she does look gorgeous in them.

“Your dinner.” She throws her head my way, part of her upper lip raised in disgust.

“You want to know?” There’s shock in her voice, and I slowly nod my head. I’m dying to know. I hope Evangeline tells me it didn’t go the way I predicted it to go. That it went perfectly or, even better, that her brother decided not to marry her off to that bastard. But considering that it didn’t take long before my phone lit up from her text, it could only mean that Thomas Meyer showed his true colours. That Frederic ignored it all because he has only dollars signs in his eyes already.

If her response isn’t what I hoped it to be, I’ll be seeing red. When it comes to Frederic, I have trouble accepting his words and actions, and I’m certainly not comfortable with giving Thomas the benefit of the doubt. Their previous actions already created a pattern, and I’m just waiting for Evangeline to share everything I already suspected.

“They settled on a date,” she says softly with the light in her eyes disappearing.

“When will it take place?” I ask, fearing her answer.

“In two months.”

“What?” That’s… too soon. Way too soon.

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