Caught in the Act

At this moment, Emma Hart was blissfully unaware that she was the reason Damian Sterling had stormed out of the banquet. 

"You're saying when you went to deliver the meal, you found the room empty?" Damian's eyes gleamed with a frosty intensity as he quickened his pace toward the room, his assistant struggling to keep up. 

To avoid infuriating Damian further, the assistant nearly jogged, replying, "Yes, Mr. Sterling, I asked the guards at the door, and they said that aside from Miss Emma stepping out in the afternoon and being sent back, she hasn't come out again."

Damian felt like crushing his own hand in frustration. He had known this woman wouldn't just stay put in her room. To think that even posting two guards at the door was futile!