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Three dots appeared and then disappeared.
Appeared and then disappeared.
My hand tightened around the phone, suddenly realising how that sounded. Maybe I’d taken it too far—
Princess: Touché.
Fuck. I exhaled heavily, fingers flying over the screen, wishing I could brush away that last comment.
Mal: The issue isn’t if they could both fit but whether the door could stay afloat. It was lack of buoyancy that killed him.
Princess: Well, shit.
Princess: At least Rose got to keep that big-ass diamond.
Mal: The true moral of the story I think.
Princess: HA!
Thump, thump, thump.
Princess: I almost worked with Leo once.
Mal: Continue…
Princess: About six years ago, but neither of our schedules matched and they ended up recasting my part. I think the project got shelved eventually.
It was easy to forget sometimes how big April’s world was. Mine stopped where the final stone of this island met the water. But April…? She could have anything she wanted.
My heart thumped for a different reason.
I forced myself to reply.
Mal: Sounds like it would have been a big deal.
Princess: Probably…
Princess: And he obviously would have fallen madly in love with me. I could be sipping cocktails on a beach somewhere right now instead of freezing my butt off in Scotland.
Mal: Do you have enough wood for the fire?
Princess: More than enough, daddy. I was making a point.
I reread the message a dozen times, blood singing, other parts of me straining.
She was joking. She had to be.
Mal: I thought he only dated women in their twenties? You’d be right where you are now, princess.
Princess: I HATE YOU!
And then, like she knew exactly what it had done to me…
Princess: Night, daddy.
I was tempted to reply, to say something flirty.I wasn’t flirty.So I stuffed the phone beneath the closest cushion, scrubbing a hand over my face. When I’d calmed myself enough to head to bed, I pushed to my feet and found Boy staring at me.“What are you looking at?”
His head tilted and I could have sworn his eyes said“get a hold of yourself, man.”
