In hindsight, Emily should have been more careful. Perhaps if she had just been paying attention to her surroundings a little bit more, then she wouldn’t have ended up in this terrible predicament.
And what a predicament it was, to have Jason walking into the study to find her pinned against the wall, with Michael's hand rummaging under her dress while he was pressed up against her. She was absolutely horrified to imagine how she must have looked at that moment.
There was a perfectly reasonable explanation for everything however. It all started when she remembered that she had arranged for a gift which she wanted to present to Jason at the ball. It was an old pocket watch, which had been passed down through her family for generations, always given to the eldest child after their weddin
