Chapter 114

Once she ended the call with her sister, Allena took a shower and changed into her favourite jeans, a bright silky blouse, and her boots. She was meeting Leah for a drink at the bar in the hotel that evening and was about thirty seconds into their conversation when she asked about the kids.

“They’re fine,” her friend said and sighed. “But they miss you. We all miss you.”

“I miss you, too.”

“Justin’s unbearable at the moment,” Leah said, grinning as she sipped her pineapple aiquiri.

“Worse than we expected. My brother is an idiot.”

Allena wasn’t going to disagree, but she also didn’t want Leah to imagine something was going on between them. Because it wasn’t. One brief kiss and a marriage proposal aside, she and Justin were not any kind of thing.

“He likes his life in order, not chaos,” she reminded Leah. “Once he gets a new routine, it will be situation normal.”

“He’s in love with you, Allena,” Leah said bluntly. “Everyone can see that. I mean, everyone but my stupid brother.”

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