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“Yeah, Kendall Justice.”
“Wow.” I tucked my hands into the pockets of my dress as I glanced back at Kain. We knew each other pretty well, but not well enough that I knew all the family dynamics going on between them.
Kain leaned against the doorway to the kitchen, his chef’s jacket open to show a black tank top. Bells stood in front of him and Kain couldn’t stop scanning her body. His body language said he was relaxed, but I knew a few of his tells.
Like when he tried to look super relaxed, it usually meant he was ready to crawl out of his skin. Or he was about to drop a bombshell. I’d seen him do it in the boardroom of the Children’s Hospital when they’d tried to take advantage of his generosity.
“Ronan and Shane are myohana. And now Kendall and their babies are too. Bells just doesn’t like to share. Last time I saw you, we were in a church.” He lowered his face to brush along Bells’ ear. “Standing in front of a priest. Somehow the ground didn’t shake that day. At least to everyone else in the room. It did for me.”
Bells stalked toward me and hooked her arm through mine, dragging me along.
Kain’s booming laugh filled the empty taproom before he disappeared back into the kitchen.
“What the heck was that about?” I asked as I stumbled after her.
“Never mind.”
“Oh, no, you have to tell me.”
Annette’s eyes were huge. “Hey, I want to know too,” she yelled after us.
“We’re leaving.” Bells practically dragged me out the front door to the parking lot.
“Okay, slow down. You’re like almost nine inches taller than me, remember?”
“Sorry.” She let me go, but she didn’t stop hustling toward her car.
I scrambled into the passenger seat since I wasn’t entirely sure she wouldn’t leave without me. “What the heck was that about?”
“That was a very large—huge—mistake I made years ago.” She gunned her engine and squealed out of the parking lot.
“Bells!” I grasped the dashboard and fumbled with my seatbelt.
“I can’t believe he’s here. I left freaking Winchester Falls to start over and he’shere?How?” She growled and the car caught air as she flew down the pitted gravel roads outside of the taproom.
“Um, we should have turned right.”
“Ugh.”
She braked hard and I grabbed the handle above the window. Since we were momentarily stationary, I managed to get my seatbelt on. “Maybe we should calm down a minute before we drive.”
“I just need to go fast.”
“And we don’t need to get pulled over.”
“By whom? The apple police?”
I snickered. I couldn’t help it.
She stared at me and the anger that had filled the car dissolved into laughter.
“Apple police?” I managed on a wheeze.
Bells collapsed back against her seat. “Shit. I just can’t believe it’s him.”
“What the heck happened between you two?”
“Nothing. That’s the problem.” She sighed. “I don’t want to talk about it. Is that okay?”
