Chapter 173

Cephus’ POV

“She’s going to judge you,” said Cephus after we’d been driving for maybe ten minutes.

I had been occupying myself in trying to smooth down a crease in my black skirt that just kept on puckering up while I was sitting down; those words were exactly what it took to send me into an accelerated frenzy of smoothing.

“I’m telling you this because you need to hear it if you want to make this work,” Cephus added. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with you at all, quite the opposite. But she’s going to look at you right now and see a little girl on her...