Chapter 484

Emma walked away without replying. She didn’t think she could speak without breaking down. She finally opened her heart to someone only to have it crushed within a day. There was a lesson there and she would be a fool to ignore it. Emma didn’t know how she got there, but when she finally came back to herself she was standing outside the head office of Ashby Chocolates. If anyone would know what was going on, it would be Natalie. Emma’s calls to Jake—Jonathon—had gone unanswered and there was no one at his house or the R & D building. He had simply disappeared off the face of the earth. That left Natalie, the one woman who had to know the truth. “Emma?” Natalie asked looking up from her desk. “I need to know the truth,” Emma said…maybe yelled, going by the look on Natalie’s face. She stood and took hold of Emma’s arm and dragged her in through the office door with Jonathon Ashby engraved on a silver plaque. “Keep your voice down,” Natalie hissed. She closed the door and directed Emma to