Chapter 27
Angela's POV
“Engage? Say what that means and why you thought a boardroom full of shareholders was the appropriate place to announce it to a woman who did not even know your name before.”
Noah looked at me for a moment. His jaw was set but his eyes were doing something more complicated, moving over my face in a way that felt less like assessment and more like he was searching for something specific and not finding it in the place he expected.
“You do not remember me,” he said.
It was not a question.
“I have never met you before yesterday,” I said.
Something moved through his expression at that. There and gone too quickly for me to catch the full shape of it.
“We met when we were seven years old,” he said, and his voice had shifted into something more careful, the way som
