It wasn't that Shirley Thorne had never called him "Ethan."
But that was always when other people were around. In private, she always used a respectful title.
Shirley Thorne touched her cheek, feeling its warmth, and stammered, "It's fine... Ch-change... what... name..."
She lowered her gaze slightly, bit her lip, and looked down, embarrassed.
Ethan Grant glanced up at her before quickly looking away. "Just in case."
The best way to pull off a fake act was to treat it as real. He felt his logic was sound.
Shirley Thorne thought it was sound, too...
No, no, no, there was a bit of a problem!
She was getting embarrassed!
Calling him that intimately in public was one thing, but doing it in private was a bit too suggestive.
'I get the logic, but I really don't want to spontaneously combust.'
Ethan Grant pretended not to see her blushing face. He coughed twice and changed the subject. "The time discrepancy Meredith Rowan mentioned was probably to provoke Warren Grant."
"Huh?"
