Chapter 26

Was she buying it? Roman couldn’t tell.

He had nothing against spending time with Evelyn every once in a while but he could already see that it would be a problem down the line. It felt too real.

And by the look on Evelyn’s face, this felt the same for her, too. It would be so easy to fall into this trap when she kept looking at him like that.

But still, the contract lay uselessly on her lap. Her pen had hovered on it a few times and then she’d stopped. He was sitting right next to her and could feel her indecision every time she did that.

She was overthinking this.

“Shall I top up your drink?” he asked.

Dinner was done and they’d moved into the sitting room after he had done the dishes. Though he took care of himself in his apartment, it had been amusing watching her reaction when he’d been wiping things down and loading the dishwasher. Women liked a man who could do these things for them, and he had learned how even before he had become independ