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I held up both my hands. “I can’t relive that.”
“Not relive. Start over.”
I appreciated the idea and her efforts to want to repair my relationship with Kane, but there wasn’t anything to fix. We didn’t have a relationship. And once he helped Penelope, we’d go our separate ways and never see one another again.
I set my fork down.
And stared at Kane with a knot in the pit of my stomach. This man had been a fixture in my life for so long, did I really think he’d ever be out of it? Maybe we hadn’t seen each other in years, but he’d been in the background the entire time.
I couldn’t forget Kane. Even if Alma had never mentioned his name, he’d still be there.
Kane held my gaze. It was as if he had access to my thoughts, and he was analyzing them without giving away his own. Was this what he did to juries? Was this some sort of mind trick?
Because I had the presence of mind to know I’d probably agree to whatever he wanted in that moment.
Ifeltthat look.
His pent-up passion. His devil-may-care attitude. How the years had jaded him and his desire to keep fighting.
“It’s not a bad idea.” His voice was rough, and I felt that too.
And it was best not to dwell on his gentle touch of my cheek in the car. Why had he done that? It wasn’t as if going back to the Hamptons could undo the last twenty years. He’d married my sister; I had Penelope and founded Earth Warriors. It didn’t seem as though there was any benefit of going back.
“There’s nothing to fix. We’ll just muddle through until Penelope is exonerated. Then you won’t have to think of me again. Besides, we can’t just take off to the Hamptons.” I was rambling, but I couldn’t help it.
“Nonsense. It’s Thursday. You can go this weekend,” Nancy said helpfully.
“You’ve still got that house,” Kane pointed out.
“I haven’t been in years,” I protested. “And we have work to do this weekend.”
“How better to monopolize my time than lock me away in the Hamptons for three days?”
Why did I think I could win an argument with the champion of litigators?
“This won’t solve anything.”
“With that attitude it won’t,” Nancy said, pressing her lips together in disapproval.
“Damn straight.” Kane nodded.
Maybe he’d let this harebrained idea go if he thought it was doomed from the start.
“It’s just the way I feel.” I was a firm believer in starting over, but I also realized that some things were just what they were.
Kane and I had been on a destructive trajectory from the time we met. No amount of do-overs would change that.
“At least she’s honest.”
“Brutally.” Kane gave me a pointed look.
Great. Now they were speaking about me as if I weren’t in the room.
“I appreciate your hospitality and your enthusiasm for helping Kane and me solve our problems—”
“If you two don’t settle your differences, do you really believe you can find peace?”
I wasn’t the only one who was brutally honest.
