Without exception, every voice in the room was tilting in Ethan's favor. His mouth curved, confident he'd already won.
With this much of a crowd behind him, there's no way Naomi holds out.
"I'm not going anywhere with you." Naomi's refusal didn't waver.
Something in Ethan's expression faltered this was the first time he'd seen her dig in quite this hard.
"Naomi. Don't you still feel something for me and Julian?" Ethan reached for the emotional angle. "He misses you. He knows he was wrong. He shouldn't have said that thing about Chloe being his mother, right in front of you."
He paused, something uneasy flickering across his face. "I shouldn't have proposed to her either. I didn't think about how that would land for you."
Naomi said nothing, meeting his sudden remorse with a flat, unm
