She genuinely thought this was finally the moment she had been waiting for.
When the check arrived at their table, she didn’t even glance at it. She was too focused on trying to calm her breathing and racing heartbeat.
He picked up the bill and looked at it.
Then he placed it directly between them on the table.
“The total is three hundred eighty dollars,” he said casually, as though discussing the weather. “Let’s split it evenly.”
She blinked, certain she had misunderstood.
“What did you say?”
