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I nodded. “Cora, Luca’s sister, called me to tell me about it. I didn’t read it or anything, though. I try to stay away from those things.”
“Hmmm,” Riel said. “I’ll have to go look for that one.”
I snorted.
He wouldn’t be looking for it. He’d be avoiding everything there was when it came to the Kilgore
paper.
Dinner flowed smoothly after that.
There were no other mentions of Luca. There was no other real focus on Riel or me at all.
At least until dinner came and everyone watched me put away almost all of my food.
The stuff I had left I boxed up, and Piper was still shaking her head in amazement.
“If I ate like you,” she said. “I’d be the size of a house.”
She gestured to where her own plate, a salad that she’d finished exactly half of, lay.
“I got my dad’s genetics,” I said. “But, saying that, when you only eat one meal a day, you’re
allowed to consume all the calories with no repercussions.”
Piper snickered.
“I like you,” she declared.
I liked her, too.
Five minutes after that, I gave the waitress money for my part of the bill, then stood up.
“I have to go,” I said to the group at large. “Thank you for allowing me to eat with y’all.”
There were a ton of murmurs of ‘any time’ and ‘thanks for joining us.’
After saying my goodbyes, I was unsurprised to find Riel walking me out to my car.
“You could’ve finished your food,” I said to him.
He shrugged. “I wasn’t too impressed with the steak.”
No, he never had been. He and Luca used to cook their own steaks and find them quite a bit tastier
than that particular restaurant.
I hadn’t thought that I needed to tell him, though.
He would’ve been curious if he hadn’t figured it out on his own.
“You and Luca used to make some great steaks,” I said. “Y’all would go buy the biggest steaks
you could get your hands on. Then you’d grill them up and eat them all without any sides.”
He grunted out a sound that was somewhere between a ‘cool’ and an ‘interesting.’
I decided not to say anything else.
