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“Doesn’t she have a fabulous voice?”
Goddammit, why was she doing this to me? I quickly cut in, “Grams—”
“It’s my right to brag on you,” she insisted. “Be as humble as you like, but I’ll rave about you as much as I please.”
“Another time. We need to go. I have a thousand things to do, and I’m sure Kaiser would like to have his home to himself again.”
Judy sighed. “I suppose you’re right.” She directed another sweet smile his way. “Thank you again for being my savior today, Kaiser. If you ever need anything, you know where to find us.” Slipping off the stool, she said to me, “I told him which house is ours.”
Of course she had. I wouldn’t have been surprised if she’d given him a goddamn key.
Taking yet another swig of his smoothie, Kaiser led the way as we headed to the front door, dogs and all. And, yeah, I treated myself to another sneak peek of his ass. Those faded jeans hugged itjust right.
Reaching the door, he fished his phone out of his pocket, tapped the screen a few times, and then pocketed it. Probably unlocking his electronic gates, I thought. I could control my own security system using an app on my phone.
His eyes met mine as he pulled open the door. Eyes that were still unreadable. I hoped that mine were just as blank, because there was a lot I didn’t want him to see.
He began to back up against the wall to give me room to pass, but then he stilled at the rumbling of an approaching engine. Moments later, a red convertible came whizzing up the driveway. Muttering a curse, he smoothly slid in front of me.
I frowned, my view now blocked by his tall, powerful frame. Why he felt the need to all but shield me and Judy, I didn’t know. Uneasy, I ensured that I stood firmly in front of my grandmother, who was nosily straining to see what was going on.
Aware of the dogs going on high-alert either side of me, I tensed as I heard heels click-clacking along the pavement. A woman. It was a woman. The ridiculous possessiveness I felt toward him rose up sharply, making my stomach churn.
“You shouldn’t be here,” said Kaiser, his voice clinically detached.
Whoa.He’d been gruff and abrupt with me on, well, pretty much every occasion we’d spoken. He’d even been patronizing and dismissive. But he’d never usedthattone with me—one that said he had not evenhalfa shred of respect for his conversationalist.
“I had to come, Kaiser,” a feminine voice clipped. “You wouldn’t take my calls.”
“I had no reason to take them,” he said, still coldly aloof.
“What’s with the dogs? When did—”
“Leave.”
“But we need to talk,” she insisted.
“You’ve got nothing to say that I’d wanna hear. Go, Camila.”
My eyes narrowed. Ah, so this was his previous girlfriend. The infamous heiress to a fishing magnate. Or something. Whatever. I tried not to listen to any news surrounding Kaiser or his relationships—I didn’t like how much power the information had over my emotions.
A finger gently poked my back and then … “Who’s Camila?” Judy whispered.
I glanced at her over my shoulder and murmured, “His ex.” An ex he clearly had no interest in seeing. My stomach didn’t stop curdling, though. Because she’dtouchedhim. Kissed him. Had him inside her and—
Shit, I needed to push this crap out of my head.
A long female sigh. “Come on, Kaiser, I’ve come all this way—”
“Your problem, not mine,” he said with a slight, fluid shrug of his broad shoulders.
“You can’t give me five minutes?” she asked.
“I could. Don’t want to. I’m not sure why you’re struggling to understand that.”
“Don’t be this way, we have … Who’s hiding behind you?”
Kaiser shifted slightly, widening his stance as if it would further conceal me. But she must have managed to at least get a glimpse of my hair or something, because a gasp of feminine outrage sounded.
