Seeing Emily like this, James smiled helplessly "Can I invite you to my house for dinner tonight?"

"Is that what you want to say?" Emily didn't think it was a thing, for dinner? To his house? Forget it. She didn't want people to think she was thinking about him, hadn't she been warned the first time she came to his house? She wasn't that shameless.

"Is that okay?" James asked again.

Emily sat upright and looked at James "We're a partnership, so it's reasonable to say that having dinner together is not a big deal, but to come to your house, I don't feel like we're that close."

James looked...