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“Scarlette, I swear if you don’t date him–” Emma started to say under her breath.
“Em!” Scarlette hissed, pulling Emma down onto the couch, who pulled me down as well. “You can’t say that! He’s my boss! And he’s fifteen years older than me!”
“So? He’s hot, and he hasn’t taken his eyes off of you since you two got here!” Emma argued, and I gasped.
“Wait, you two came together?” I asked in a low voice, not having realized that it was like that between them.
“He saw the invite on my desk! Then he asked me how I knew you and said that you were my sister. When he told me he was going, he told me he would find someone to do my work scheduled for the weekend so that I could go,” Scar explained, and my mouth dropped.
“So he really wasn’t going to let you come!” I said, already wary of this guy.
“I had a lot to do…which he reassigned so that I could come! Then, he insisted that we share the rental car he was buying, and then he bought my plane ticket so that I couldn’t argue about coming!”
“He’s in love with you!” Emma said lowly, but in a suggestive tone.
“He does not!” Scarlette responded in an exasperated whisper, her eyes flickering toward Nikolas. “He actually doesn’t even know my real last name!”
“What?” I asked, not sure how that was even possible.
“Don’t worry about it. Anyway, are you and Landon finally dating?” She asked the same question she asked every time she saw me, and though I knew she did it to get attention off of herself, she’d still asked the right question.
I stayed quiet instead of giving my usual immediate no. This made both of my sisters look at me with shock on their faces.
“Belle!” Emma yelled, grabbing my hand and pulling me closer. “Are you and Landon dating?” Her voice was loud enough that I was sure anyone could hear from any part of the large house.
I grinned, biting my lip, and nodded.
Then both of my sisters were squealing, jumping up from the couch and pulling me with them.
“No way! I can’t believe you two finally got together! This is the best news ever!” Scar screamed, pulling me into a hug with Emma yet again.
“Everything okay in here, ladies?” Liam asked, popping his head around the corner. Nikolas and Landon were right behind him.
“Landon and Belle are finally dating!” Emma screamed, running across the room to throw herself at Landon, looping her arms around his neck to squeeze the life out of him in the form of a hug. She was just like that. Landon was laughing, looking over her shoulder at me in a distress signal, but I just laughed, too happy that everyone knew now.
Scarlette walked to Landon, much calmer, to give him a hug, and I watched as Nikolas’s eyes trailed after my little sister the entire time. In fact, he couldn’t stop looking at her, no matter what she did. There was an air of possessiveness to his stare as well, and I wondered if there was something Scarlette wasn’t telling us.
But I would ask another time. When he was more ready to talk about it.
“They’ve been best friends for eight years. Lived together for three,” Landon said to Nikolas, catching him up on what he missed in the last episode so to speak.
Nikolas nodded, his eyes still on Scarlette as she backed away from Landon and moved to Emma’s side.
“This calls for a drink!” Emma exclaimed, grabbing Landon’s hand and pulling him back to the kitchen. Liam just chuckled, following after his fiancee with hearty eyes. It was so obvious how much he loved her and all of her silliness. Which was so opposed to his serious demeanor.
I grabbed Scarlette’s hand and pulled her with me but didn’t miss how her eyes flicked to Nikolas as we passed him.
Yeah, something was going on there.
Once Emma poured champagne for all of us in beautiful pink crystal glasses, she made a toast to Landon and me, claiming our engagement party was next. And I wasn’t embarrassed by that statement at all. In fact, she was probably right. Because I would be growing old with Landon.
About an hour later, guests started to arrive. And I was overjoyed with the fact that we were going to get to tell our friends tonight. We’d managed to keep it quiet this Wednesday at the coffee shop, only because we wanted a little bit more time. I’d made sure the guests knew where to go, where to get food, and where to put the presents they brought anyway. Finally, our friends came, but we wanted to wait for all of them to be with us before we said anything.
“Hey you two,” Cooper said as he approached where Landon and I stood at the edge of the room, just watching all of the guests interact. Mandy was right behind him.
“What’s going on?” Cooper asked, just as Andrew and Leslie approached as well.
“What do you mean?” Landon asked, acting like nothing was out of the ordinary. I couldn’t stop the small laugh that escaped my lips. Mandy eyed me warily.
