Eliana had been caught off guard by his sudden appearance. "What are you doing here?" she asked, eyebrows raised.

Jeremy, dressed in a sharp pinstripe suit that smelled faintly of smoke and booze, clearly had just come from some fancy shindig.

He looked up at her with a glint in his eye. "Guess who I bumped into today?"

"Why should I care who you saw? Please, just go," Eliana replied, uninterested in entertaining a tipsy guest, reaching to shut the door.

But before ...