But there’s no time to think on it because Christian heaves a sigh and swings his feet away from me, off the couch, planting them on the floor as he looks seriously between Nico and Frankie. “All right,” he says, nodding like he’s made a decision. “We move forward then, but…with some changes. The fi
“Yeah, yeah,” Tony mutters, though he can’t help the fond little smirk that pulls at his lips as he flaps a dismissive hand at her. He flops back onto the couch across from Christian, where he sat before his beach walk with his fiancé. “Do you mind, Luce?” Christian asks quietly, calmly, nodding h
“No, I think it’s cute,” Lucy says, sitting on the edge of the bed and tilting her head to the side as she considers my second sundress-and-sweatshirt outfit in as many days. “I think you look beachy. Cool.” My shoulders slump a little as I look down at myself, considering. “I’m not sure ‘beachy’
“Ooookay,” Lucy says, shrugging and giving us both a pretty smile. She heads into the living room to wrap an arm around Tony’s waist, grinning up at him. “Come on, Bambs,” Frankie says, smiling at me and tilting his head towards the door. “You grab some money from the sugar daddy, I’ll grab the ca
“Fine, Frankie,” I say, my voice slow and angry. As the words start to spill from me, I wonder where the hell the hesitant girl from this morning went – the one who was too scared to come out of the bedroom without Lucy teasing me into it. “Even if you’re set on just brushing this under the rug, I a
“Because you’ve been ordered to?” I ask quietly, watching him carefully, needing to know. He raises from his little bow and meets my eyes with a seriousness I’m not sure I’ve seen in him before. “No, Bambi,” he replies. “Not because I’m ordered to.” And then he dips down, and grabs the basket I
“Christian,” I groan, looking again over my shoulder at the second car following us, which is packed with four people to our two. “Why are we going to church!?” “For the tenth time, Iris!” Christian laughs, glancing at me cheerfully. Honestly, if he weren’t so excited about this, I’d be completely
My mouth falls open a little bit. And then my jaw inches lower and lower as the moments pass, as I stare up into Christian’s beautiful face, as my brain just goes completely blank. Because what…what did he just say? “Utoh,” Nico says, coming close and smirking at me. “Who short-circuited the b