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My belly fluttered and twisted. “Me?! Why?”
“Maybe because you’re hisdaughter?”
I tried not to shoot her nasty eyes. All this time and she still defended him. She’d never stopped defending him. It was sad really.
I forced myself to breathe, telling myself this was some stupid game, some stupid trick, even though my heart was daring to hope, daring to dream.
“What does he want? He must want something?” I couldn’t stop the pout. “Verity need a kidney donor or something? Maybe they want to harvest mysub-standardDNA to saveprecious. He’ll need to come up with more than Harrison Gables in exchange for my organs.”
Mum rolled her eyes. “Ask him,” she said, and gestured to my phone. “Who knows? It could be somethinggood.Have you considered that?”
No. I hadn’t considered that. There was little point. It was never good. I stood mute, just staring.Harrison fucking Gables.
“Alright,” I relented. “I’ll call him.”
Mum looked relieved. She chivvied me along with frantic hands, and then she said the ominous words.
Ominous words that never boded well.
“Think before you give an answer,” she said. “I mean it, Katie, you need tothinkabout things. Don’t go bladdering in there making rash decisions.”
I dialled the number before she could make me promise anything.
“Call her,” I said. Rick was staring at his phone, pretending to be tapping away on some thing or another, but I knew. His brows were too serious.
“No.”
“Call her. See if she’s coming back this afternoon.”
“No!” he said. “Just give her some time, will you?”
I smirked. “Don’t pretend you aren’t shitting it. You want to know if she’s coming back. So, call her.”
“You’re wasted, you know that? You should start up an agony aunt column.Ask Doctor Carl. It would be an instant hit.”
“Mock all you like, my advice is sound. People just don’t want to hear the truth.” I turned my nose up at his little veggie crackers andgrabbed some bread from the bread bin. “You don’t really think she’s coming back, do you?”
“I do actually,” he said. “I know she’ll be back. I’m just not sure when.”
“Next weekend. If she wants to get paid.”
He rolled his eyes at me. “And that’s what I’m supposed to say, is it?Hey, Katie! You’d better be back here Saturday. It’ll be two dicks next time. We’ll have lube.”
“What’s wrong with that?”
He sighed, and nibbled at his veggie delight. “It’s just so… base.”
“And?”
“And… just… non-seductive.”
“We’re supposed to pay herandseduce her now, are we?” I stuck the bread in the toaster. “Surely she should be seducing us, no?”
“Doesn’t mean we can’t make an effort.”
“We made an effort.”
“You uncorked a bottle of red. Big deal.”
