Chapter 19

Roman sat in the car, watching the door and waiting to calm down.

Another week had been wasted.

Evelyn had ignored all his calls and messages. It had been foolish of him to try to call her anyway, especially after her first refusal, but he had needed to know where she’d been. He’d needed to know what she was doing. What could she have possibly been doing that she hadn’t found a single moment for him? Okay, so that was a bit hypocritical, but he would have thought she was too old to play tit for tat.

Well, obviously she wasn’t too old for games, because she was playing one now.

What had taken her so long to return from that boy’s house? Wasn’t she supposed to be helping her parents? What about arranging her things for university? That was only a couple of weeks away. If she had tried to do that at all, she would have been told everything had already been arranged for her despite her refusing to let him do that. She would have called him to ask why he had done