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“Uh, yes, I’m okay. I’m just?—”
“Thinking about Preston kissing you at the charity event?”
“Serena.”
“He’s good, isn’t he?”
Fucking hell.This conversation was going to be the death of me. I could feel a heart attack coming on with every other word coming out of her mouth.
“I’m just kidding. Look, I’m trying to be cool about this, okay? You know how I get—my jokes get more inappropriate the more nervous I am.”
“Bug, I don’t want you to be nervous. If this is too weird for you?—”
“Oh I’ll be fine,” she interrupted, and thank God, because I wasn’t positive I could promise to end things with Preston. In fact, I was fairly certain those words didn’t even exist for me right now. Not when all I could think about was the way he had kissed me at the charity event. “I just didn’t know how to bring this up, and, well, I just kinda worked myself into a bit of a state.”
“And Preston? Have you spoken to him any more about this, or?—”
“Yeah, we’re good. He’s just giving me some space to…process.”
That made sense. It wasn’t every day you found out your boyfriend/best friend was now seeing your father.
Christ.I was going to be paying for her therapist until I was ninety.
“Can I ask you something?”
Serena’s question had me refocusing on the conversation at hand. “Anything.”
“This thing with Preston, whatever you two are doing, you’re going to be careful, right?”
I frowned for a second, my mind automatically going where no parent’s mind should go when discussing their child’s friend.
“It’s just… You are the two people in the world I love the most, and this is kind of crazy, right? Like, what if his parents find out? What if the board at Elysium or—oh my God—schoolfinds out? I don’t want anything to happen to either of you.”
I let out a sigh of relief thatthatwas where her mind had been.
“We’ll be careful. Plus, we’re not really doing anything wrong, Bug. He’s of age and?—”
“Have you met hisfather? He’s planning our joint engagement and baby shower. He’s going to think what you’re doing isverywrong. Just promise me you won’t do anything to…jeopardize each other.”
Like almost fucking him in a restroom while his parents ate dinner at a table in the same restaurant?
“We’ll be careful.”
“Okay, well, I know you have things to do, and I don’t want to keep you?—”
“You’re never keeping me from anything, you know that.”
“I do. So, go and boss all your volunteers around down at the Elysium. Be extra bossy with East—he hates being told what to do.”
I didn’t doubt it. “I’ll see you tonight?”
“Me and all my friends…literally.”
“Can’t wait. Let me know if you need anything today.”
“Will do, Dad. Love you.”
“Love you too, Bug.”
