141: Contented

SCARLETT

I’m sitting across a man who holds my entire heart in his palms, decidedly so.

He’s somehow pulling off a light blue suit, looking like the best thing to have ever happened since the marvelous invention of chocolates.

We’ve just finished having the best dinner date I’ve ever been on and now he's feeding me dessert while going on about how the interview process for a new employee at the cafe was the funniest task he's ever been saddled with.

Instead of being invested in the conversation, I’m too distracted by the two tickets sitting in my purse to the all white party Ashley invited me to. The moment she suggested that I bring a date, Blake was the first person that came to mind.

However, I knew that bringing him as my date would only raise suspicions and I couldn't risk ruining the beautiful thing we had blossomed into.

“Let’s get out of here,” I whispered to him, my eyes sending a message that he couldn't possibly miss.

“Shit, yeah,” he chuckled, smiling like a teenage boy th