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Actually, I believed him, but it was still a shock because he was this brooding man, who’d been cold to me for so long. I’d expected Carter to tell me he loved me. We had a past, after all.
“Of course I love you,” he said, looking at me as though me questioning him was the most ridiculous thing he ever heard. I smiled and the familiar prickling feeling sprung up in my chest. I seemed to have that a lot around Kane now.
It surprised me that Kane hadn’t tried to keep his feelings away from my uncle, though it shocked Clay more, he was looking at me and then at Kane. Before his gaze moved behind me and I glanced over my shoulder to see what had caught his attention. Carter and Ryan were in the middle of discussing something, but Seb quickly turned his back to me.
I blinked hard, wondering if Seb had overheard Kane’s declaration and thinking of how that could change things. I needed to speak to him on his own, needed to find out what he was thinking.
“Are you okay going home?” Clay asked. “I’ve got plenty of space for you all.”
“I need to get it over with,” I said and smiled. "This way I've got plenty of distraction."
Clay nodded his head. “Okay, Will you coming back here for dinner?” he asked. “I’d love to spend more time with everyone on a personal level.”
“Not tonight. I do need an early night. Tomorrow?”
I also knew I had to speak to the guys. I had to let every one of them know what Kane and I had done and as I wasn’t sure how they were going to react organising dinner with Clay for tonight wouldn’t be such a wonderful idea.
“Tomorrow it is.” Clay pulled me to him and hugged me tight, his mouth close to my ear, as he whispered, “don’t make things harder than they need to be.”
“What do you mean?”
“I can see they all have a deep affection for you, but they all act different and Seb is the most obvious, but you need to stop worrying about him.”
I shook my head. “It’s not what you think.”
Clay lowered his chin and gazed into my eyes. “I know what I see, you will see it soon.”
“I...” I stopped talking because really did I want to have a discussion with my uncle about having sex with Kane, after arguing with him for weeks. I wasn’t sure how Seb was going to take that snippet of information. Because if he loved me, he wouldn’t after hearing that.
“He’ll be fine... they’ll all be fine,” he said.
“Did you just read my mind?”
Clay’s face broke into an enormous grin. “I need to speak to you tomorrow. I’ll call you. Also, you’ll have your ceremony soon. I’m going to have that organised for the time you are home.”
“So soon,” I said with a sigh. Clay nodded. “Okay, do I need to buy a dress?”
Clay laughed. “I’ll speak to you about it tomorrow. We need to organise a lot before it happens. Put things in place.”
“Things?” I puffed out my cheeks and rolled my eyes, because Clay was being evasive.
“Let’s get back to the house. I think we all could do with dinner and an early night,” Kane said beside me.
“I’ll call the housekeeper and have her organise for you to have dinner at six o’clock,” Clay said, managing everything as usual.
“You’ve got a housekeeper?” Kane whispered.
“It’s not as fancy as it sounds. She used to be my nanny,” I replied and smiled as I scanned my eyes around the grounds of Clay’s palatial stately home. “Not like this place.”
I glanced at my hand, seeing Kane's fingers entwined around my own. I looked back at his face and smiled.
After kissing Clay on the cheek, we squeezed ourselves into Carter’s BMW car. This time I sat in the middle and but there wasn’t a grand journey to my childhood home—I lived in the house next door. A quick ride across from the grounds of Clay’s palatial mansion, and we were entering through the gates of my parents’ home—my home. All behind the security gates of Clay’s home.
I’d thought all along Clay was trying to get me to sell the house and now it’s dawned on me that this home would be the place I’d live in for the rest of my life. Protected within the walls of the Great Oak perimeter.
“Wow, what a house,” Ryan said as the electric gates to my home opened. And seeing it again made my heart skip a beat. My parents’ home. The large red brick home, symmetrically designed with a large double doors to the centre and large curved windows either side. A triple garage to the far side. It was a modern house, especially when compared with Clay’s stately home.
I sucked in a large deep breath and blinked my eyes hard. I wanted to be brave, but tears slipped out.
