Page 48 of Revere: A Legacy Novel

“I won’t say anything.”

“And you can’t blab the news to everyone until we’re ready to,” he finished.

“Okay!” Catherine, uncaring how her brother felt about it, pulled him in to kiss his forehead. “I am so excited.”

Michel shook his head when she finally let him go. “You’re terrible. I shouldn’t have even told you. Ma says you can’t keep a secret to save your life.”

Catherine scoffed. “My whole life has been a secret to them, so. What the fuck do they know?”

She settled back into the couch with a smile, and feeling happier than she had earlier with her meditating.

“Imagine all the shopping I can do for the baby,” she said more to herself than her brother. “Oh, and if it’s a girl. A girl, Michel. Dresses and shoes. Headbands and—”

“Okay, now you’re going into the baby’s sex, and we haven’t even heard a heartbeat yet. Relax, Catherine.”

“But babies are the best.”

As long as it wasn’t her having the baby, that was.

Catherine wasn’t ready for that.

Michel groaned and glared up at the ceiling. “I swear, this is going to be the next eight months of my life with all you women.”

“You know, if you learned how to not be such a moody asshole, you might like the way we women are with this stuff.”

“Doubt it.”

“Live in your sad bubble, then,” Catherine replied with a flick of her fingers.

“Enough about me. Your turn, little sister.”

Catherine pulled the container holding the cheese omelet, and a plastic fork resting at the bottom of the bag. “What about me?”

“I had lunch with Andino the other day,” Michel said.

“Uh-huh.” Catherine was more interested in the omelet than playing word games with her brother. “So?”

“His guy was there, too. Jordy.”

Catherine stiffened. “Oh?”

“He’s the enforcer that looks after you sometimes, right?”

“Well, he follows me around,” Catherine replied, “but I wouldn’t say he looks after me.”

Mostly, Jordy was for show. Dante wanted a man on his daughter to keep her safe, given their family’s business and the nature of it. Catherine didn’t want an enforcer following her around and reporting back to her dad about the things she did, especially the hustling.

Andino found a happy medium. Jordy. An enforcer for Andino’s crew kept watch after Catherine, but never followed her inside venues. Since he worked for Andino, he understood some of the business Catherine had with her cousin needed to be kept quiet.

It worked.

Catherine was satisfied.

Dante’s concern was satisfied.

That was the end of it.

“What about Jordy?” Catherine asked.