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“I bet he was,” she said, wagging her eyebrows.
“If I didn’t come back here, she’d never finish getting ready,” Joseph added, and I put the finishing touches on my makeup before declaring that I was done.
“Where are you guys going?” Kayla asked, her face pinched together, as if she hadn’t expected us to have another fake date so soon.
“Apparently, his mother wants to see us,” I said, choking on the words.
“She what?” Kayla whirled around and faced Joseph. “Joseph! You’re throwing Sutton into the lion’s den already? Your mother is going to eat her alive.”
“Thanks for the vote of confidence,” I said, suddenly worried that I was going to sweat through my shirt.
“You’ve been out one time!” she practically screamed. “I’m telling you, that woman has superpowers.”
“Sutton will be fine,” Joseph said. “See you tomorrow, Kayla.”
He placed his hand on my lower back as I walked out of the bathroom and down the hall. I turned around, meeting Kayla’s eyes, and I knew she sensed what I was feeling without me needing to say it.
I was in trouble.
I was going to fall for this man, and we both knew it.
That was, if I made it through the night with his mother.
ALREADY FALLING
JOSEPH
We sat in the back of a town car, my driver heading toward my mother’s penthouse.
Once we were buckled in, Sutton turned to face me. “We really need to get our stories straight.”
“You’re right,” I agreed, and we worked out a few details—making up some bullshit story about how we had run into each other one night, recognized one another, and I’d asked her out on the spot—before arriving at the front of my mom’s building and pulling to a stop.
“We’re already here?” Sutton looked nervous.
“We’ll just play it by ear. She’s not going to grill you until you crack,” I tried to reassure her, but honestly, I had no idea what my mother was capable of or what she planned on doing.
Kayla wasn’t wrong when she said the woman had superpowers. She definitely did.
“She won’t leave you alone unless you’re in love. Have you forgotten that small detail?”
Apparently, I had. “What’s your point?”
“We are not in love. We barely even know each other.”
“It will be fine,” I said again before I stepped out of the car before moving to get her.
“Good evening, Mr. Martin,” the doorman said as we neared.
“Evening, Alexander,” I said in response as he held the door open for us.
We walked to the bank of elevators, and I pressed the button. We stepped inside, and I swiped a card and hit the PH button.
“I’ll let Mrs. Martin know you have arrived and are on your way up,” Alexander said before the doors closed.
We rode up in silence. I held her hand without even thinking about it. I wanted Sutton to be calm, to realize that I wouldn’t bring her to someone who was going to hurt her. Hell, I wanted her to trust me.
“Here goes nothing,” Sutton said under her breath when the elevator dinged and the doors opened into my mother’s waiting area.
