“He wants to date Dream?” Shanti asked through the phone.
“Is there another Dream we know that he might be talking about?’ Joey suggested.
“Nope. It’s my sister he’s talking about,” I said.
“This is wild,” Gemma noted.
“I’m never going to look at some everyday dude on his laptop at a coffee shop the same again,” Shanti remarked.
Time to move on.
“Dream is coming to dinner at Mom and Dad’s tonight. I’ll see if there’s an opportunity to run the date by her,” I said.
“But…is that wise? I mean, we don’t know who he works for,” Raye asked me.
“No, we don’t,” I agreed. “But the Nightingale guys do, and do you think Cap, or Eric, Javi or Gabe would allow him to hang here if they weren’t fans?”
“Good point,” Joey said through the phone.
“Also, he flew all the way out to Pennsylvania for Macy’s funeral,” I reminded Raye. “I mean, that’s way above and beyond the call of a devoted regular at a funky coffee shop slash bar slash restaurant.”
“This is very true,” Raye muttered. “And that was really sweet.”
It was.
And anyone could use sweet in their lives.
Maybe especially Dream.
“Do we need to worry about this board?” Joey inquired.
“Byron says that the Nightingale geek monitors it,” I shared.
“Right,” Jessie said.
“Okay, you ask Dream,” Raye ordered me, then to the team, “Those of us sleeping with Nightingale boys will give them the shit they deserve. And we’ll move on from there. Everyone in on our Chambers Family brief on Sunday?”
Man, they were just not letting that go.
There were a bunch of “I’m in” so I had to say it too.
But I had four days to figure out how to convince them to back down.
Now, I had to figure out how to get my sister to go out on a date with Byron.
NINE
HUNG UP
“I dig you dig my hair, but the rest of me is feeling jealous,” I said to Knox, who seemed mesmerized by his fingers in my hair.
His attention shifted to me and his lips tipped up in that sexy, soft, intimate smile he gave me in times like these, post-sex, when we were just chilling in bed.
“It wraps around my fingers like it doesn’t want to let me go,” he explained.
No part of me ever wanted to let him go.
Yes, I just thought that, and we hadn’t been together for long, but it didn’t freak me out in the slightest.
