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“Is this about Caitlin?” Leah asked.
Her sweet innocent voice was disarming, and I sighed, turning to her. Finally, I nodded, not trusting myself to reply without revealing just how upset I was about the current state of things. My phone dinged again, and Kieran’s hand snapped it up before I could. It was almost so quick that I missed it and I sort of stared at him in a state of shock for a second too long. He peered down at the screen and smirked.
“She’s going shopping at Prada these days, huh?”
“Fuck off,” I mumbled.
He chuckled, not paying my surly mood any mind. I held out my hand and tapped the screen, opening my banking app. Mournfully, I stared at all the charges and handed him the phone again.
“She doesn’t need me,” I muttered.
“She certainly needs your credit card,” he replied, his expression rife with amusement.
“It’s not funny,” I scoffed.
“Oh, it’s definitely not,” he replied, sounding dead serious before he broke face and started smirking again.
Kieran pulled his own phone out of his pocket. “There’s something else,” he added. He turned the screen to me. There was a still image on it with Caitlin staring into the camera and flipping it off right in front of an open cash register. There was a stack of cash in her hand, and I sighed.
“Fuck. Do I need to go bail her out?”
“Only if you want to press charges on the fact that she robbedourpub,” he smirked.
“Our pub?”
“Yes, Cormac. That’s our bar in the picture. How many drinks have you had tonight?” He shook his head, surveying the damage once again before he waved someone over to come clean it up.
“Not enough,” I mumbled.
“Tommy told me she’s been going out at night and partying it up in some of the hottest clubs in the city,” he added.
The image of her dancing with other guys flashed before my eyes and I saw red. Just thinking of other men looking at her, or even worse, touching her, made me want to punch my fist right through the wall.
“I think I know what she’s doing,” Leah said quietly.
Her sweet voice gave me pause. My haze of anger slowly lifted, and I sat back with a sigh. I couldn’t let loose with her here. She didn’t deserve to see me like that. Plus, she was really close to term, and I wouldn’t do anything to add any more risk to her pregnancy.
“She’s living her life without me,” I muttered, and she shook her head. I narrowed my eyes at her in confusion.
“Sometimes, when Kieran is really busy and I miss him, I do little things to get his attention,” she offered, her cheeks blushing brighter by the second. Kieran chuckled beside her.
“She does and she gets the attention she wants every single time, don’t you, Leah?” Kieran said, his voice holding a firmer edge than before.
She squirmed, blushing so hard that even the tip of her nose was pink. She cleared her throat, and I could tell she was trying to be brave.
“It seems to me that Caitlin may be acting out for that kind of attention. She’s staying out late at night, going on insane shopping sprees, the works. She’s way bolder than I, that’s for certain, but that’s what she’s doing,” she stammered.
“She knew the camera was there when she took the money from the register,” Kieran stated.
“Let me see what she bought,” another voice piped up.
My sister Ada was leaning against the side of the booth. I wasn’t sure when she got there or how much of the conversation she’d heard. Maybe she’d been there the whole time and I’d just been too wasted to see her. She sat down in the booth beside me and plucked my phone out of my hands. She scrolled down the list of charges and laughed.
“I knew I liked her. Caitlin has good taste,” she smirked.
“I know. She likes Prada, Gucci, and all the usual brands,” I replied, annoyed again.
“No, that’s not what I mean. Those are all household names. She’s got some much smaller ones that are pretty exclusive, that only someone with a keen eye for fashion would recognize.” She paused, reading down the list. “See, this one here, Chantal Thomas, she’s a world-renowned French lingerie designer. She’s ridiculously expensive, but her bras are some of the best in the business.”
