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I was more amused than I should be. I had forgotten about the security cameras in the common areas of the house. Fortunately, they didn’t extend to the bedrooms. “No one under forty has an ‘affair.’ I’d just like to point that out first. Second of all, Bella would never do that. You know that. He was here with me. He’s my…” I searched for an appropriate term. “Friend.”
“Oh, thank God.” My mother expelled a huge sigh of relief. “I can’t have anything go wrong before this wedding.”
“Seriously, you know Bella better than that.” My sister would never cheat on Bradley. It was not the way she was wired. She was definitely not our father’s daughter.
“You’re right. You’re right.” She took a deep breath. “Wait a minute. Sophie Jane, why did you have a man in his underwear in the house in the middle of the night?”
I was wondering when she would catch on to that. “We were hanging out.” This would only be more awkward if he was still in bed beside me.
“Is this that tour guide you were talking about?”
I sat up. There was no falling back asleep after this. “Where did you get tour guide from? He’s a lobster fisherman.”
“I don’t care what he is. Just don’t get attached.”
“I thought you always wanted me to spend less time studying and more time dating. Only no nerds. That was always also your rule—no nerds.” It had always been a tremendous mystery to me how my mother thought her quirky genius daughter with a literal approach to life was supposed to date anyone other than a nerd. “So no nerds. No lobster fishermen. Anyone else I should scratch off the list?”
She sighed. The deep sigh where she was debating if she should mention how much like my father I am. “I don’t know why you have to argue with me.”
“I’m not arguing with you. I’m just establishing your elusive parameters.”
“I have to go,” she said crankily. “Just stop bringing strange men into the house. I have to explain this to your father now and he’s going to be devastated.”
I highly doubted my dad would be devastated to know that his nearly twenty-five-year-old daughter had a sex life. I think up to this point he had been a little concerned that I did not. “I’ll see you tomorrow. Have a safe flight.” Because there wasn’t anything else she wanted me to say.
She gave me a begrudging goodbye and ended the call.
I had a text from Cain.
Hi.
With a kiss emoji.
My cheeks flushed. I didn’t know how to respond. Did I kiss back? Did I just say hi? Did I tell him I had fun? I actually debated waking my sister up to ask her what the hell I should type but I figured she would strangle me for ruining her beauty sleep when Bradley was due to arrive the next day.
But I was saved from my flirt dilemma by him sending another text.
You busy around five? Meet me at the dock.
For what?
Then I added: I’m not busy.
I can show you how we trap lobster. Since you didn’t think it was real.
That made me smile.
Sounds educational. I’ll be there.
But I whispered out loud, “This isn’t smart, Sophie. Not smart at all.”
—
I spent the whole fucking day thinking about Sophie. To the point that I barely spoke and Liam actually commented on it.
“Dude, are you okay? You’re not swearing or bitching at all today.”
I was known for that. It was my special fun personality. I glanced over at him and smirked. “Aw, you miss me. That’s so fucking sweet.”
