Her heart nearly stopped beating on hearing his words.
Pending match?
So he had read the note she had slipped under his door…
When she looked at Phillip, he was staring at her with wide eyes, as though he could not believe what he was hearing as well.
But they were shocked for entirely different reasons…
"I thought you stopped racing, Eve. This man here is no novice - I do not need to know more about him to be able to discern that."
Their eyes finally met.
It was almost as though he were daring her to refuse.
A shiver of anticipation ran down her spine. She knew she would regret not accepting the invitation…
"Perhaps we can discuss the particulars of that later." She heard herself say.
"Perhaps we could."
Phillip cleared his throat just then.
"Is there something I'm missing here?"
Both she and Theodore looked at him, breaking the spell that seemed to have bound them.
"What? No… I don't think…" Her face was heating up.
