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“How are you feeling?”
“I’ll make it, don’t worry. I think Olivia and I just overdid it on the gummy worms. She’s asleep upstairs and lover boy told me he’d be home by midnight.”
“Lover boy?”
She rubs her palms together and smiles. “Hot date. Some young attorney from the area. And it’s about time if you ask me. Young hunk of a man, all muscle and brawn. He’s been living like a monk since that witch died.”
“Maureen!”
“You didn’t know her, I did. And how he wound up with her I’ll never know.”
“It just doesn’t seem right to talk about Olivia’s mother like that.”
She waves me off. “Like I said, you didn’t know her.”
She’s smiling again as she pushes her arms into her cardigan. “Our boy was dressed for success tonight. Sharp black button-down, black pants that he fills out quite nicely,ifyou know what I mean.” Her expression is scheming in a creepy way, like this is some matchmaking gig we’re both in on. Like I should be rooting for this bullshit along with her.
She practically skips to the front door.Under the weather my ass.“Thanks a bunch, Skylar.”
I fall back onto the couch. “G’night, Maureen.”
Of course he’d go for a lawyer. She probably specializes in patents or intellectual property law. She’s no doubt smarter than me. More his equal.
He thinks of me as a kid. He’s even called mekiddobefore, same thing he calls Olivia. The last time he did it I was so tempted to remind him of the night we met—or didn’t meet. I could have said something like:You didn’t call me kiddo when you had your dick pressed up against my ass. When you asked me if I liked it. Nope, I wasn’t kiddo that night in the club.
Now I’m hot and flustered thinking back to that night. I lay back on the couch and imagine him above me, caging me in and kissing me. But when I close my eyes thoughts of Leo with some other woman ruin it for me. I’m still hot all right, but it’s jealousy stoking this fire, not lust.
I hear the key in the lock and note that it takes him a few tries before he’s successful in opening the door. And is that a giggle I just heard? Did Leo Hale just…giggle? Swear to God, if he brought this chick home I’m going to pitch a fit. Last thing Olivia needs is to wake up to some strange woman in the house.
I stand up to face off with them but Leo is alone in the kitchen. And the jerk has the nerve to stand there with a surprised look and a smile on his face when he sees it’s me.
“Hi. This is a nice surprise.”
He puts his keys down and walks over to get a glass of water from the sink.
”Aren’t you going to ask what happened to Maureen?”
“What happened to Maureen?”
I’d like to slap him right now. “She called me to come over because she didn’t feel well.”
“Oh.”
“That’s it? Oh?”
“What…You think I should go check on her?”
“No. She seemed fine when I got here.”
“Sorry she bothered you then.”
I should go. He doesn’t seem drunk but he’s definitely had a few.I should go, I tell myself again, but I’m too damn mad. “Did you drive?”
“No, Mom. Took a car service.”
“So I guess your hot date was a bust?”
He doesn’t answer. Instead he walks over to the cabinet and takes a bottle down from the highest shelf. While I stand there waiting like a fool, he pours himself a small tumbler of some amber colored liquid. He takes a seat at the kitchen table close to where I’m standing and sips his drink as he studies me.
