Chapter 57

Ruben had picked up on the tension between Emmett and Regina the moment they stepped into his room. Regina didn't try to stay at the office too long, it hadn't even been 15 minutes since they had been inside the room that Regina demanded to leave to go back to the mansion. Emmett offered to take her, but she declined to say she will have Daniel come pick her up. After another 15 minutes of sitting around in awkward silence, Regina and Belle left the room.

"Dude! What the hell happened between you two?" Ruben questioned Emmett right away.

Emmett just got up and poured himself another drink. "Nothing, Ruben," he said with a defeated tone.

"Okay, now I know for sure something happened" Ruben tried to pry.

Emmett knew he was going to regret it but decided to tell him anyways about the elevator incident.

Now Ruben was sitting right next to him. He placed his hand on Emmett's shoulder in support.

"That explains a lot!"

"I don't know what to do, Ruben. She probably hates me now."

"I don't think so, man. Look, don't take it too seriously. You both need to just take it one step at a time. And you my friend just need to relax and let things happen," Ruben advised as he got up from the sofa.

Emmett nodded at him. "Well, I gonna head back to my office now. I'll catch you later, yeah" Ruben said as he looked over to Emmett as he reached the door.

"Yea. I won't be heading back to Regina until later tonight" Emmett informed him before Ruben left the room.

Regina x Emmett

By the time Regina made it back to the house from the office, it was going to be lunchtime. Maybe she should have had waited until after lunch to leave she had thought. But she was already back. She decided to skip lunch, asking for tea instead.

For rest of the day, she tried her best to keep herself entertained to try not to think about Emmett too much. But that was not happening, the entire rest of the day her mind kept going back to the incident inside the elevator and she would blush each time. There were times when she would scold herself out loud accidentally and would notice the maids looking at her in confusion. She would play it off by saying something random to them as she laughed at herself.

Evening time had rolled around, and she was waiting for Emmett to show up any moment. She knew usually he was back by 5 pm but today that was not the case. She thought maybe he was running late or caught in traffic so when 5:30 rolled around she kept a lookout for him. He still wasn't back yet. She automatically thought maybe he got caught up in meeting longer than the usual time.

She even thought about calling him but couldn't bring herself to do it. She decided to go in the living room area that was adjacent to the kitchen and sat on the sofa as she waited.

At 7 pm, Emmett pulled up to the driveway. He handed his keys to Daniel and entered. When he reached the living room area and was about to go up the stairs to his room to change when he noticed Regina sound asleep on the sofa still in her morning attire.

'I guess she didn't change when she got back' he thought to himself as he slowly approached her. He placed his keys and cellphone on the table next to the sofa.

As his eyes landed on Regina's face, he couldn't help but gaze upon her beauty. His breath got caught in his throat as he noticed the soft gentle smile on her lips.

He bent down in front of her and just admired her beauty. He couldn't help but smile as he realized how peaceful she looked at that moment.

After a couple of minutes, he debated with the fact if he should wake her up or just let her be on the sofa. He sat there contemplating that he didn't notice Regina slowly waking up.

"WHAA!" Regina screamed as she was fully awake and found herself staring right at Emmett's face.

Regina's scream startled Emmett out of his thoughts causing him to lose balance and almost hit his back against the table behind him if he had not caught himself just in time.

"It's just me" Emmett let her know as he stood up and moved out of her way. "I am sorry for scaring you"

Regina quickly sat up and just looked at him.

"You shouldn't do that to someone when they are sleeping" Regina added as she got up from the sofa and went to the kitchen.

Emmett followed behind her. "I am sorry, Regina"

Regina decided to let it go. Not wanting to create another scene with him.

"Are you hungry?" she then asked him as she pulled out the food, she had the maids prepare for him.

"Oh yea, I am starving," he said as he looked at the food with hunger in his eyes. Regina chuckled at the reaction.

They sat at the dining table across from each other. Serving themselves and began to eat.

Regina noticed Emmett quickly take bite after bite.

"You must be very hungry," she said as she looked at him with a raised brow.

Emmett slowed down as he cleared his throat to speak. "Yea…sorry"

"Oh, no..no… it's alright. I just don't want you to choke." Regina said as she went back to focus on her food.

Emmett just nodded his head as he too went back to eating but this time not so fast.

"So…uh…was there a meeting or something?" Regina asked as she looked at him again, Emmett just looked at her in confusion. "I mean you came home late so I assumed you might have gotten caught up in another meeting." She added.

Emmett just looked at her not sure if he should tell her the truth or not. "Yea…there was. Sorry, if I worried you." He said as he put down his fork to grab his glass of water to drink.

Regina knew best to not push the topic any further. If Emmett didn't want to tell her the real reason, then he didn't have to.

Soon both were done with dinner. Regina decided to gather their plates and glass to go wash them in the sink.

Emmett watched her go. He didn't think she was going to wash them too.

"Regina!" he called out as he got up to go to her. "You know you don't have to do that," he said as he watched her wash and clean their plates and put them away.

"I know. I just felt like it." Regina said without looking up at him.

Emmett went back to his seat and waited for Regina to get done.

After a couple of minutes, Regina came out of the kitchen. "I am gonna go upstairs." She informed him as she passed him by. Emmett took hold of her wrist stopping her in her tracks.

He then got up from his seat and stood in front of Regina while holding her wrist in his hand.

"I am sorry if I crossed a line this morning in the elevator." He apologized as he gauged her reaction.

Upon the mention of the incident, Regina instantly started to blush which Emmett noticed. She turned away from him and walked towards the stairs.

Before she went up the steps, she glanced at Emmett who was looking at her with confusion.

"You don't have to apologize." She let him know. She then went up the stair to their bedroom.

Emmett stood there as he registered Regina's words and her reaction. 'Was she blushing?' he thought to himself as he looked over to the stairs where Regina was standing a moment ago.