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She smiled mischievously at me.
“What?”
“Nothing. Where are we going first?”
“Let’s get some smoothies first, and I have a lot to tell you.”
“I can’t wait. Start spilling. I have been deprived of every juicy story.” She leaned back.
“We are going shopping!”I squealed.
“I thought you were broke. Wait, did you steal his money?” She looked impressed.
“No?” I waved the cards in her face.
“I see you’re doing great,” she said, and I rolled my eyes.
“So, any updates on Tristan?” she asked, relaxing on the seat with her knees propped up.
I was annoyed with her habit of placing her feet on the seat, but it wouldn’t be my first time complaining. Her usual reply was, “My shoe is clean,” or, “Relax. It’s a new shoe.”
I filled her in on what had been going on with Tristan.
“Wait, he asked you on a date?” she asked immediately after I brought it up.
“Yeah, but then I found out he has a wife.”
“That makes no sense. Maybe she is dead.”
“I don’t know. Everything with him is complicated.”
“You’re not falling for him, are you? It was just one kiss, right?”
“Um … well … we might have … sorta … made out again and some other stuff.”
“Wait, you like him?”
“I don’t know.” I shrugged.
“Just be careful. I still don’t trust him or his family.”
“Trustis such a foreign word to me right now,” I mumbled with a sigh.
“Go for it if you want; I mean, why not make the most of your time with the Greek god before you leave? Just try not to catch feelings,” she said.
It’s too late for that.
He was like a serpent, always deadly, but he’d already stung his fangs into my heart.
“So, you have free access to his property now, huh?” she asked, connecting her playlist to the car’s stereo player.
“It’s the least he could do after making me homeless and an orphan.” I sighed, making a turn to the smoothie parlor.
“When you say other stuff, you mean, you went past kissing?”
I sighed, knowing she wouldn’t drop the topic until I gave her every detail. I didn’t tell her how ashamed I’d felt after it happened.
When I gotto the house, I put on the two-piece swimsuit I’d bought today from the Chanel store and left the room to go for a quick swim. The water was warm. I lay back, staring at the stars as I moved my legs in the water.
