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“Not even to come to your house and meet him that way?” he offered.
“We’re both pretty busy. I have the end of the year testing coming up, and he’s in the middle of negotiating a reality show. We may not have a lot of time for each other.”
“Ah, so you want to keep him all to yourself right now. You don’t want to share. How unteacherlike of you,” Liam said with a slow smile.
“Something like that. It’s new, it’s exciting, and we have to be careful. I’m almost worried about talking to you about this here in case anyone overhears us.”
“What you do on your own time is no one's business but yours and the one you are with.”
“This from a man who’s careful who he lets know he’s gay.”
“People are idiots, and you and Zach are adults, heterosexual adults. It’s different. Though it shouldn’t be. Most parents might know or think something, but as long as their kid is happy, no one says or questions anything. Plus, it helps to live where we do.”
“There’s that. I hate that you even have to worry about it.”
“I shouldn’t, and I try not to, and you shouldn’t either.”
“That’s easier said than done, but it will be all right. Zach and I want to make this work; we’ll find a way. As I’m sure, when you find the right guy, you will too.”
“One relationship at a time. I’m still getting my head wrapped around the fact that you are getting serious about a guy. Don’t try and pull me into the void too.”
“It isn’t a void. It’s quite incredible if you just allow yourself to experience it.”
“All in good time, my friend. Let’s concentrate on you and your love life, and we’ll worry about mine later.”
“Deal,” I said as I heard the sound of the bell and the start of the day.
Chapter 18
Zach
“I’ll see you tonight.”
The last words that Victoria said to me played on repeat in my mind all day. Even though we had spent the weekend together, even though I could see how sad she was that the weekend had ended, I still wasn’t sure how she was going to be come Monday morning. She had played hot and cold with me for so long that I half expected her to do the same thing when we said goodbye.
But she had done the exact opposite. Asking when she could see me again. It had been unusual for me to have the weekend off. And as such, I had a lot that I needed to catch up on. If it had been any other woman but Victoria, I would have told them I couldn’t. It would have been a bit of a brush-off, I was never a man who saw a woman two, much less three, nights in a row, but I wanted to do that with Victoria.
I had quickly thought about my schedule and saw a few ways that I could rearrange some appointments. It wasn’t something I would be able to do all the time. One of the great things about my job was there was no need to punch a clock. But it also meant that I had to be available to whoever needed me whenever they needed me. When dealing with multi-million-dollar homes, it didn’t work to tell the client you would call them back.
But I wanted to make the time with Victoria; I wanted to see her. My life, my whole purpose for the last five years, had been to try and build up my career and my name in the real estate industry. It was still important to me, and I hoped that I could find a way to make the reality show work, but it wasn’t my biggest priority anymore.
Victoria and what we could have was.
It was crazy to think how quickly my life had changed. Less than a month ago, I never would have thought that I would consider being with one woman and only that woman. But I did with Victoria. It was going to take some work, some rearranging of my priorities, and possibly scaling back on other things, but I would find a way. We would find a way.
The need for us to be secretive might actually work in my favor. It would be easier to keep my private and my professional life separate if we couldn’t be seen around each other. Not that I wanted to hide what Victoria and I had. As soon as she said it was okay, I wanted to tell the world. But for now, it would be easier to spend time with her if I didn’t have to justify it to my staff or tell anyone where I was going.
I kind of liked the idea that I had Victoria all to myself. I wanted us to be able to take this time to get to know each other without any outside influences. I had never had a woman that I didn’t take to a bar or restaurant and then have the paparazzi or someone wanting to talk to us or know how we had met. I had enjoyed the limelight, that people cared about me and who I was, but I didn’t want that as much now with Victoria.
We could take things as fast or as slow as we wanted. We had gone from zero to full throttle when we slept together, and it hadn’t really slowed down. It was good that we could slow things down. Though, I already felt that I knew Victoria better than I knew anyone. Still, I wanted to know more; I wanted to know everything about her.
When I walked into my office, I saw my sister, Ashley, sitting at my desk. It wasn’t unusual to see her in my office, even sitting at my desk if she needed to take care of something, but it was unusual to see her there so early in the morning.
“Is everything okay? Did something happen with the Remington estate?” I asked as I walked the rest of the way into the office.
I had my head down as I read an email and was only listening to her with half an ear, but very quickly, she had all my attention.
“No. It’s all set to be shown this afternoon. You’d better be there. The client only wants you to show it. Sandy is going to go over early and help prep everything. You need to be there by three o’clock. We already went over that. What I want to know is how long you’ve been fucking our sister?”
