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Lila pecked at a few keys. He knew very well what she wanted. Usually he’d order for her while she worked on more important tasks. “Kung pao chicken.”
Tristan’s head snapped up. “You’ve never ordered that before.”
“Perhaps my tastes have changed.”
Dixon scribbled something on his notepad, and Tristan pulled out his palm, punching in the restaurant’s ID.
Lila returned to the sofa, snatching up her laptop once more. She’d managed to scroll through fifty log entries before T
ristan excused himself and returned with three Plum Luck Dragon takeout bags.
Katia snatched up her food and two forks. “Let’s leave these two alone.”
Gods, despite what she’d said, Katia still believed that Lila had been the cause of Dixon’s good mood, a mood that had stalled over the last few hours.
Tristan took his dinner and followed Katia into his bedroom.
Lila whipped off her hood and snatched up the container of kung pao chicken, food she had no desire to eat.
Why the fuck had she ordered it?
You haven’t looked at me the entire day.
She poked her food with a plastic fork. “I’m looking at you now.”
No, you aren’t. You’re mad me.
“I’m not mad at you.”
Dixon closed the Styrofoam lid on her food and grabbed her chin, turning it to face his.
“I don’t understand why you pushed me towards Tristan when you knew he was with Katia the whole time, when you knew he was still in love with her,” she whispered. “You never told me about her. He never even told me about her.”
He wasn’t with her anymore. Did you tell him about your ex-lovers?
“That’s a lot different. There was nothing to tell. I’d never had feelings for them.”
There was nothing to tell in his case, either. He hadn’t been with Katia in two years. They’d become friends.
“Oh, yeah, I’ve heard how friendly they are.”
I’m not wrong.
“I think you don’t know your brother as well as you think. Either that or you want something for him that he doesn’t want for himself.”
She’s not right for him.
“No, she’s perfect for him. I’m the one who was never right for him.”
This thing with Katia isn’t going to last. He’s not doing it to be with her. He’s—
Lila stilled his pencil. “I don’t care why he’s doing it. It’s none of my business. I was right when I said we never would have worked in the end, and I know now that we never really worked at all. He never meant any of what he said. He made me believe I was special, but seeing him with Katia has made one thing clear. No one is special. No one is one person’s everything. It’s all pointless bedroom chatter.”
That’s bullshit.
“I don’t think it is. If I wanted to, I could have those feelings for someone else. We were only together for a few weeks. We’ve been broken up for longer than that. I’m over him.”
No, you aren’t.
