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“If Seamus is your nephew, does that mean he’s my cousin?”
He cast me a look. “Well, yes.”
“He’s really pretty.”
I snorted at her wistful tone. “I thought you had a soul mate in your class.”
Kat frowned. “You’ve been gone too long, Star. We moved on. It was time.”
“Soul mates don’t move on,” I pointed out.
“Of course they do,” she chided me like I was the idiot here. “Life’s too short to just have one soul mate. That’s why Camden is so perfect for me.”
“It helps that he’s about twenty-five years too old for you and doesn’t know you exist as well.”
“Savannah told me she’d introduce us,” she crowed.
Apparently sensing we were going to start bickering, Conor chuckled. “I think your opinion on soul mates will change when you watchThe Notebook, Katina.”
I rolled my eyes. “Of course, you’ve watched that.”
“Meaning you haven’t?” he sputtered. When I shook my head, he gaped at me. “We’re changing that. At some point, youarewatching that movie with me.”
“I can watch it with you,” Kat declared, sounding more like herself. Thank fuck.
“I think you’re too young, Kat.” He pulled a face. “I don’t know the age it’s rated for. I mean, there’s no…”
Stifling a laugh, I replied, “You’ll just have to wait, Kat. It’s like the rides at the amusement parks that are too big for you.”
“No fair,” she pouted. “I want to watch too.”
“We’ll find something to watch together, don’t worry. Conor loves cartoons.”
Her eyes lit up, and the joy overwhelmed the earlier episode of… What?Dissociation?How had I never seen how deep this went before? Because I was on the lookout for trauma, not something else like fugue states?
“We can watch those together!” she cheered, drawing me back into the conversation. “Do you likeNaruto?”
I groaned. “Don’t get her started on that weird fox dude. Only sociopaths grin like that—”
“Weird fox dude?” They both blurted that at the same time, their outrage unfabricated.
“Never mind that Kakashi weirdo.” Because my brain was on a delay, I asked Conor a stupid question, “You know he reads porn?”
Of course, Katina picked up on that. “What’s porn?”
Before I had to answer, someone called out, “Hey!” The three of us turned as one and found Seamus, Conor’s nephew, standing there, wearing an easy, welcoming smile. “Uncle Con!”
Conor hooked Shay around the neck and hauled him in for a bear hug. “You managed to stay out of trouble since I’ve been gone?”
His nose crinkled. “Maybe. You blacking out half of my social media helped.”
Chuckling, Conor drawled, “Be careful what you wish for and don’t get…” He cast a quick glance at Katina who was staring at the older boy with stars in her eyes. “…you know. Don’t be dumb.”
“I won’t. It was a party!”
Ah.Party = drunk.
“Anyway, I’m about to go and set up a game and wondered if you’d like to play with Victoria and me?”
