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“Sister,” Reece supplies, inviting himself into my office like he wasn’tjustkicked out of it. “This is my sister.”
My body relaxes as I fold my arms over my chest. “Just how many siblings do you have, Mr. Souza?” During our party planning, Kaisin said Reece had a brother.
“Just Breck and Charlie.”
“Charlie’s your brother?”
Breckyn’s smile grows. “No, Charlie’s my twin sister…”
So he lied.
“…but she already has someone to shadow.”
“Shadow?”
“Breck is here to shadow you for a high school project.”
“Ugh. Reece. You told me she agreed,” Breckyn whines, revealing even more of her age. I’ve always struggled to relate to teenagers because while the girls in my grade were getting lattes and talking boys, I was serving shots and screwing their dads.
My eyes fly to Reece. That’s what he wanted to understand. It’s not my teenage innocence he was worried about, it’s his sisters’. Cyrus wants them at The Playground, and having a set of actual twins would be a huge draw.
What Reece fails to realize is, if Cyrus wants something, it’s as good as his. Nothing can stop him, not even the police because they’re some of his best customers.
Reece opens his mouth, but I rush to say, “That’s right, the shadowing. It somehow slipped my mind that we were doing that today. I apologize for being so ill-prepared. My husband was just in an accident and my brain has been…scattered.”
Reece’s jaw remains slack.
“That’s okay. I’m just happy to be here, you know, a fly on the wall, taking it all in.” Breckyn surveys my office and its view before looking back at me. “You’re the only person to agree to let me shadow them.”
“In real estate, it’s all about who you know.”
Reece’s little sister leans toward me, and pretending to whisper, asks, “Is Reece as annoying here as he is at home?”
“I don’t know what he’s like at home.” My gaze switches between the siblings. “Is he annoying?”
“Above annoying.”
Her brother tilts his head at her, silently threatening her. All it does is make her laugh. And me want to.
Watching Reece—tall, dark, and menacing Reece—joke around with his sister makes me feel like someone turned the gravity off.
Reece catches my lips pulled to one side before I can fix them, but instead of saying something idiotic, he just grins back.
I tear my gaze away from his mouth to see if I actually am levitating. Surprisingly, my feet are still rooted to the floor. I can’t remember ever feeling weightless, not once in twenty-six years.
“I’ll be back at the end of the day,” Reece says. “Be good,” he warns Breckyn in another brotherly threat, but then he looks at me and I think he might’ve meant it for me, too.
He should know better.
Breckyn gives him a salute that makes him chuckle on his way out my door.
“So…” I turn to her.
“I didn’t mean any of that.”
“Any of what?” Is this another one of Reece’s lies?
“That Reece is annoying. He’s not. Charlie and I just like to tease him because he’s so serious all the time.”
