Chapter 45. Cinderella

Brendon stared at her angrily, but he couldn't say what he wanted. He knew, with a certainty inside him, that he had to take her with him to this party.

"Samira, these packages..." He said, pointing to the packages he had placed on the bed and her eyes followed the movement. "I bought them a few weeks ago..."

"I know. I saw when you came in here with them." She interrupted him.

"But you didn't give me a chance to talk about it." He continued, but this time speaking slowly and thoughtfully. "It's good that you saw it, so you know it's not a lie when I say I've been planning to invite you for a long time... But tell me something; how did you see it?"

Samira pointed with her chin to a camera in her room.

"With your toy. I was in your office, working on your computer and I came across the images from the cameras..."

She spoke so loosely, invading his privacy, that Bre