Chapter 14

It was Friday.

Evelyn was fuming as she sat in the sitting room, watching as the clock slowly inched its way to seven o’clock.

Roman had left her stranded here when he knew bloody well that it was a nightmare to find on a map. She had given him the benefit of a doubt because maybe for a change he’d experienced the same problems the rest of the mere mortals like herself faced when businesses closed for the weekend. Maybe he’d had to wait for the towing company to open back up for business.

But now it was bloody Friday.

A whole week had gone by since the day he picked her up in town and then used her body’s responses to him to show her he was the boss.

It had broken her heart to tell her mother that she wasn’t going around on Sunday after all as she had promised. She’d tried everything she could not to break her word. She’d even trekked to her nearest neighbours, but they had completely ignored her. Completely rubbish neighbours. There hadn’t even been an