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“She’s smart and outgoing. I met her sisters and stepmom, which was interesting. And last night, she started a food fight with the girls. She lost.” He grinned at the memory of her covered in red sauce and not even caring.
“What’s her name?” Kelly pulled out her phone.
“Lucy Lovely, you know that.” He leaned back in his chair. Kelly wouldn’t find a thing on this woman.
“Lucy Lovely.” Kelly tapped. Turning the phone to him, she asked, “Does she look like that?”
Leo took the phone from her and looked at his fiancé’s face in a wedding announcement, a wedding that took place not six months before, based on the write-up. He nodded to his ex; it was her.
Kelly took the phone back and read, “Mabel Lucie Lovely marries Clifton Scott V in a late summer wedding.”
“Her twin is named Mabel,” Leo told her. If he hadn’t seen her twin the day before, he wouldn’t believe that she wasn’t in that picture.
“Mabel Lucie and Lucy?” Kelly raised an eyebrow in question.
“Lucy Maud.” Leo grinned. He had no idea why her parents would name their twins that. He wondered for a second what they would name their boys.
Kelly looked at the article again. “Oh, look. Lucy Lovely was maid of honor.”
“See.”
“Do you know who Clifton Scott V is, Leo?” Kelly pointed at her phone screen, even if he couldn’t see it.
“Nope.” He raised his hand in defeat.
“Billionaire whose family put up most of the money for the new library last fall.”
“So, she married well.” Leo shrugged.
“She was also maid of honor for Harper Lovely, who married Kaine Hawthorn.” Kelly pointed to her phone. “Another billionaire in this town.”
Which was why her knowing Bex Carter wasn’t a big deal. She knew the owner of Hawthorn International.
“Another sister married well.”
“And she was a bridesmaid for Beatrix Lovely, who married Jonas Raiden. Three for three, Leo. Is your Lucy four for four?”
“What are you saying?” he asked.
“That your lady love may be a gold digger. Her family seems to have nothing but are now marrying well.”
“No, she’s not.” What would be his luck that she would be his secretary when he needed a wife?
“I hope not, Leo. I might come to the wedding just to see this woman. Tell me one thing you love about her,” Kelly pressed.
“I love how she smells.” He didn’t lie; he always liked her floral scent. From the moment he had met her, he had liked that about her.
“Maybe by the morning of the wedding, you will have a better answer than that, Leo,” Kelly said and squeezed his shoulder on the way by him as she went to get their girls.
He had said what he thought she wanted to hear. What could he tell her? That he loved how she had looked at him when he had checked her body for injuries that morning? The way her breath caught when his hands had grazed her breasts? That she tasted like heaven and red sauce? That was not something he could tell his ex-wife, no matter how close they were.
