Rhett's cold gaze first fell on Elise's face before shifting to the two elders sitting stiffly on his sofa.
His lips pressed into a tight, straight line, and he remained completely silent.
Elise's eyes flickered with nervous energy as she hurried to the entrance and hooked her arm possessively through his.
"My parents wanted to come and see you. You don't mind, do you?"
Rhett owned properties in almost every major city. Some were his intensely private apartments, and he had never brought Elise to any of them.
On the rare occasions she had suggested visiting, he had always politely, but firmly, refused.
She had never forgotten those rejections.
Combined with the rumors she'd heard about the Loya Garden, a deep sense of crisis was consuming her. Rhett was clearly no longer the man who had zero interest in women.
She was terrified that, even without Kelsey in the picture, the two of them were slowly drifting apart.
