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“Yeah.” I step closer and set my father’s room key in the return bin.
Penelope mouths, “Thank you,” and a part of me wants to ask how she went from being happy as hell to looking depressed as shit in a matter of hours, but I don’t.
We’re not friends, and we never will be.
I walk away and take the stairway to my suite. I shower and slip under the covers. I’m debating ordering room service when a knock sounds at the door.
I walk over and open it, finding Travis.
“You told me you had a fight in a few days,” I say. “You said that to me this morning.”
“You have a very odd way of saying, ‘I’m so fucking happy to see you, Travis.’”
“Penelope’s room is two floors down.”
“I made a reservation for us at Capitol Grille to celebrate you winning first place just in case your family flaked. Did they?”
“Penelope won first place, too.”
“After that, I got tickets to an anime exhibit at the museum down the street.”
“Travis—” My sentence ends on his lips, and he wraps his arms around my waist. He kisses me until I lose my breath, until my mind can only focus on him.
“I came here for you,” he whispers against my mouth. “Let me be here for you, okay?”
I nod. “Okay…”
* * *
At midnight,Travis checks his watch and stands up from my suite’s couch.
“Off to see Penelope before you go?” I ask.
“Not at this hour.” He smiles. “I believe she’s blowing me off anyway.”
“Why?”
“Because Hayden just sent me a text and he claims that she’s hanging out with you all weekend.”
“Ha!”
“Exactly.” He laughs. “She probably has a secret boyfriend she doesn’t want me to know about.”
“You mean ‘Hayden’isher boyfriend, right?”
“No, I’d kill him if that were the case.”
I tilt my head to the side, confused.
I’ve seen the way Hayden and Penelope look at each other whenever they think they’re alone. They’re constantly on the phone talking and laughing about absolutely nothing, and it’s obvious there’ssomethingthere.
How can Travis not see that?
“Come on.” He grabbed my hands and pulled me up. “Walk me to the elevator.”
“Do you have to leave now?”
“My flight is in five hours, but I have to get through customs, remember?”
