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“If you could, that would be amazing, Scarlet. Thank you.”
Silence settles around the table for all of thirty seconds before Megan turns to Lucy and says, “You going to give us the tea on Elliot?”
THIRTY-FOUR
Scarlet
I’m in the kitchen, my hands deep in the sink when I hear the roaring of the engine. My head lifts with the sound, and I abandon the dishes, rushing for the front door.
He’s already parked and jogging up the steps when I push through it.
“You’re home.”
He looks up and smiles so big and wide, my stomach bottoms out. “I’m home.” He doesn’t stop, and neither do I, walking straight to me and picking me up.
I wrap my arms around his neck, letting him hold me for a second before I lean back and take his lips in a searing kiss.
He said he’d be back on Wednesday, but it’s been a week.
A week too long.
“You missed me, sunshine?” he asks, squinting up at me.
I pinch two fingers together. “Maybe a little.”
He chuckles, letting me down to my feet, but he doesn’t let me go. “Yeah, me too.”
“You went to see him?”
“It felt like the least I could do. Nina and Mason are finally sorting through their shit, and Joey instantly throws a spanner in the works.”
I made the trip out to see Joey after I finished work today. When he eventually opened the door, I gave him the forms I’d picked up from the hospital and spoke to him for as long as he’d tolerate me before brushing me off. “He seems like a really nice guy. He’s obviously not sleeping, and I told Nina to see if someone he knows can go over and offer more support. I’d go inside, but it seems like a lot right now and pushy when he doesn’t know me.”
Lance smooths a hand over the top of my thigh in soft circles, his eyes still scanning the pages of the book he has spread across my legs. “You’ve done what you said you would. And you’re busy with uni and work. The fact you made an effort at all is enough.”
I nod, watching him.
He found my stash of raunchy romance books yesterday when I took him on a tour of the lower level of the house. I rarely come down here because it’s only lit up by the windows on the back of the house. It houses the wine cellar, library—which we’re hidden out in now, and gym. The wine cellar is the only room I’ve ever really found use of.
It’s dark as shit down here.
For years I’ve wanted to move the library to the main living level, but I have a million other rooms to redecorate first.
“I have a secret to tell you. But you can’t tell anyone else.”
He lifts his eyes this time, his interest piqued.
“Mason is going to ask Nina to move back in.”
He stares at me for a second, and then his lip curls. “I know.”
“You know?” I snap. “Were you not going to tell me?”
“I know what you girls are like. You can’t keep anything to yourselves.”
“You weren’t going to tell me?” I say, shocked.
Asshole!
