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Katerina laughs. “He’s a child. He doesn’t get over anything.”
“Don’t be mean to my best friend,” Roman warns.
I like seeing her like this. Being somewhat free around people that aren’t her family, me or Nate. She glows even brighter when she’s not feeling weighed down by all her emotions and feelings of expectation.
“So, Alexander,” Roman drawls. “Do you shoot?”
“He doesn’t,” Katerina answers for me.
I give her a sideways glance. “Really, princess?”
“You tried it once and had beginners luck,” she states.
“You said I was a natural,” I shoot back. “And I know you’re only doing this because you’re jealous that I’m better than you.”
At that, Roman’s eyes shoot upward. “Better than Katerina? Now that I would love to see.”
“He’s not better than me,” Katerina insists. “Xander likes to think of himself as God’s gift to man.”
“It’s not like that’s completely untrue,” I state.
She looks at Roman in exasperation. “You see what I have to deal with every day. He’s insufferable.”
Roman chuckles. “But seriously, Xander, why don’t the two of us make a wager. We play and whoever makes the most shot on target, wins.”
I grin, liking the sound of that. “Sure let’s do it.”
Roman moves to get into position. I stand behind Katerina for a moment, leaning down to whisper in her ear.
“And when I win, I want something from you too, princess,” I murmur, kissing the shell of her ear softly.
I feel a shiver roll through her.
“When you lose, I’m going to gloat for days.”
“Trust me, baby. I’m not going to lose.”
I never say things I don’t mean and by the time I’m done shooting every bullet in the canister of the gun handed to me, it’s pretty clear that I really am God’s gift to man. Or at least to shooting. When I turn to my girlfriend, her eyes are wide with shock.
She really has no trust in me.
Beside me, Roman De Luca’s also similarly surprised. Although his is more muted.
“Mincetti, I think I’m just going to stop playing with anyone belonging to your family,” he calls out to Katerina.
“That would be advisable,” she retorts.
I smile. It’s the little things that matter and Roman referring to me as her family has a sort of easy feeling settling over my chest.
“You could be an ace shooter if you wanted, man,” Roman says to me visibly impressed. “You and Sophia are pretty gifted, huh?”
“Yeah, we get that a lot,” I quip.
I’ve only met Katerina’s little sister once, but she seemed cool. My type of person.
“So, what do you want?”
I don’t even have to think about my request. I tell him about my tech start up that’s launching in less than two months.
