CHAPTER EIGHT
“What are you doing here?” Emily said, going over to the door and blocking Ben’s entrance.
Behind her, she could hear people whispering under their breath. She realized that this would become the next thing everyone gossiped about, at whatever the next function was they ended up at without really wanting to be.
Ben raised his eyebrows. “Hello to you, too.”
Right away, Emily could see that he was tipsy. Memories of tipsy Ben came sharply into focus in her mind. No wonder he’d managed to bypass the intercom system; he must have charmed one of the neighbors into letting him in. It was exactly the sort of thing tipsy Ben would do.
She so wasn’t in the mood for this. Ben had managed to infuriate her within seconds of her seeing him. The last time he’d been groveling for her f
