LOVED FORTY FOUR

"Why the hell are you so obsessed with your brother?" Frances asked as she sat with him in the living room.

"Obsessed with my brother?" Cael asked. He did not like the sound of the stamen that someone on his side was making.

"Yes, you somehow make everything about him, it has been two days since the wedding and you can not seem to shut up about it, do I need to meet my boyfriend and then talk about his brother?" she asked air quoting the word boyfriend because they both knew what they actually meant to each other.

Cael was sure that his brother's marriage was a sham but there was nothing he could do about it, all his efforts to expose it as one unfortunately ended badly for him.

"We are here to discuss my birthday party and not my brother" Cael said turning his nose up. "I was in a good mood but you managed to ruin it" he added.

"Just as you always manage to do for me" Frances murmured to herself sipping from her wine glass.

She could not deny the fact that although she started going