My Great Escape Led Me to You (Emily Blair) novel Chapter 986

Emily stared at Elizabeth’s solemn expression, speechless for a moment.

"...Whatever novel you're reading lately, you should stop. It's starting to affect your brain."

Elizabeth looked at her in disbelief, indignant. "I'm being serious! You'd better believe me."

Emily lowered her head and continued drying her hair. "You're overthinking it. Andrew wasn't my first love, and I would never cheat on my partner. This is all just your speculation."

Clearly unconvinced, Elizabeth narrowed her eyes. "We'll just have to wait and see, then."

After drying her hair, Emily grabbed the hairdryer and started blowing it out.

Elizabeth suddenly remembered. "So when are you and Andrew planning to have that dinner?"

Emily paused, only then recalling her promise in the car to treat him to a meal.

She shook her head. "He's the one deciding that."

Elizabeth pressed her lips together, knowing full well that this dinner would be anything but simple. But since Emily was so resistant to her first-love theory, she decided to drop it.

"Alright, alright. I'm going to take a shower. Then let's go down to the restaurant to eat. I'm starving."

One wall of the restaurant where they were eating was made of floor-to-ceiling windows, offering a view of the resort staff still evacuating people from the villa area.

Down below, staff and volunteers in yellow raincoats were still hard at work. Among them, one tall, upright figure stood out from the crowd.

It was Andrew Lane.

Andrew was a man of his word. If he was going to volunteer, he was going to do it perfectly, and he was still busy.

Elizabeth followed her gaze and complained, "We were so careless. When will the transportation in Ashworth be back to normal? I have a mountain of work waiting at the office."

"Just eat quickly," Emily sighed. "My phone battery won't last forever."

She swallowed her food and glanced down through the window. The workers in their yellow raincoats were all standing still, looking up at the resort. Even without seeing their faces, Emily could guess their frustrated expressions.

Suddenly, the tallest figure in yellow looked up in their direction.

Emily instinctively flinched back before remembering it was one-way glass; no one could see in from the outside.

Andrew's dark eyes, slick with rain, seemed even deeper in the storm.

He quickly looked away and turned to leave with the other staff members.

Emily and Elizabeth finished their meal quickly and took the emergency stairs back to their floor.

Staring at her nearly dead phone, Elizabeth wailed, "When it rains, it pours. Why didn't I think to charge my phone when we had power? Now I'm full of regret."