Chapter 127

Scott picked up his glass and clinked against Dylan's. Dylan chuckled in delight. Everyone continued drinking and chatting, but Naomi started pondering. What happened to Scott? She looked at him and realized that he had been awfully quiet that night, especially after she returned from the phone call. He was much quieter than before. He was mostly just listening to others talk. He would stare at his glass in deep thought. No one knew what he was thinking about. When it was almost ten, they left the restaurant. Dylan took Scott and Naomi back to the hotel. In the car, he kept rambling on and on about how Herland was his territory and how he had planned a lot of fun for them. Naomi felt that Dylan was a little tipsy because he was strangely excited and irrational. "Naomi, don't think that just because our Scott doesn't speak much or knows how to flirt, he isn't a romantic guy. In fact, he's really devoted to you. All these years, he only had you. He had never once had an affair or