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Chapter Thirty-One
“Dad, are you busy?”Aubrey looked into Leo’s office. Over the last three weeks, she had been acting as his personal assistant and was doing better than he had thought she would. But not as good as his last one. Not that he was comparing them or thinking about Lucy constantly.
“Sure, what do you want?” He smiled at her. Usually, she didn’t care if he was busy or not before entering his office.
“I just got back from class, so I’m here the rest of the day,” she stated, not something she usually announced. Since it was a school day, she was in jeans and a T-shirt, one that said “VVyomlny” in purple. He just chocked it up to teenage fads.
“Okay, thanks for telling me,” he said, going back to the document he was writing.
“That wasn’t what I wanted to talk to you about, what we wanted to talk to you about,” Aubrey replied and looked behind her as Alexis came into the room, dressed about the same. Her shirt was gray and said, “Grand Cannon.”
“Alexis, shouldn’t you be in school?” He checked the time once again and saw it was just after noon.
“I um, we, wanted to talk to you,” Alexis said, looking at her sister, who pushed her more into the room. It seemed his younger daughter was the one who needed to talk to him.
Turning away from his computer, he got up and led the girls to the couch in the corner of his office. Whatever this was about was serious.
“Okay, what did you want to talk about?”
The sisters looked at each other, and Aubrey started, “We think you need to talk to Lucy. You were happy with her, and we want you two back together.”
“You were against me getting married again,” he reminded them, though they had very much changed their minds before the engagement ended.
“We were never against you marrying her,” Aubrey stated, as if she wasn’t lying. “But you were happy with her, and she was fun to have around. Way better then Stacy. Since she left, you have been, shall we say, a bear?”
“Sorry your lives have been so bad.” He folded his arms, the girls were barely with him, so they could hardly complain about his attitude.
Aubrey gave him a look. “Our lives have been fine, Dad. Yours hasn’t.”
“You two are wasting your time. What Lucy did was unforgivable. You two should know that since Amelia is your sister.”
“She wants Lucy back too, Dad. She has forgiven her. Lucy just made a mistake,” Aubrey argued, and she nudged her sister, who seemed to ignore her.
“Amelia doesn’t know Lucy like I know her, girls. Lucy has an amazing memory that has never failed her. And she was the one who brought almond milk into the house. You both know that,” Leo reminded them.
“Dad, it was Agatha who brought it in. She brought over all the ingredients that day,” Alexis explained, leaning forward on the couch.
“So, it’s all Agatha’s fault?”
Aubrey looked at her sister and back at him. “Agatha didn’t know Amelia had a nut allergy, just that she needed to buy nondairy milk, and she picked the wrong one. Only Harper knew, because she made all the food.”
“Lucy used the milk, not Agatha. I will not blame her for this,” Leo stated.
“Nobody is blaming Agatha; she didn’t know. But you also shouldn’t be blaming Lucy. She would never have used the milk if she had known what kind it was,” Aubrey said and nudged her sister again.
He gave them a flat look. “It was written on the carton.”
At his words, Aubrey leaned into her sister and whispered in her ear, which Alexis hissed back at her, “I promised I wouldn’t tell.”
“Tell him,” Aubrey said louder.
“Just tell me, Lexie, or Aubrey will, I assume.”
“I promised Emma I wouldn’t. She told me in confidence, and I don’t tell secrets,” Alexis said, looking at her sister.
Aubrey rolled her eyes. “You told me.”
“Because you were pinching me.”
