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“Looks like the reality TV princess finally decided to return to her tequila throne.” Lorenzo drops into the stool beside me and places his whiskey glass on the counter.
“Don’t you have anything better to do with your time than hang out here?” I scan the relatively empty bar.
He shrugs. “Not really.”
“You need a job.”
His brow rises. “At eight p.m. on a Tuesday?”
“How about a hobby, then?”
“Does plotting against my enemies count?”
My brows rise. “You have enemies? In Lake Wisteria?”
He laughs into his glass, although the sound comes off as chilling and haunted rather than warm and hearty.
“What areyoudoing here?” he asks before I have a chanceto follow up.
“Meeting up with my sister.” I check my phone for the third time within the last ten minutes. When I called for an emergency girls’ night, Lily suggested we meet at Last Call after she closed the shop for the night, claiming she was craving their curly fries.
“Lily, right?”
I turn to glare at him. “Why are you asking?”
He ignores my question and asks one of his own. “Is she single?”
My eyes narrow. “No.”
“Hm. Who’s the guy?”
“Jesus, so don’t bother hitting on her.”
“She wants to become a nun?”
“Close. Virgin until marriage.” I swallow back a giggle before it gives me away.
Lorenzo’s upper lip curls with disgust. “Great.”
I wave Henry over and order two seltzers.
A few minutes later, the door to the bar slams open, and my sister barrels inside wearing my favorite winter coat and stolen designer boots. She shrugs it off with a shiver, revealing another one of my outfits.
“I could kill her.”
Lorenzo’s eyes darken as they trail down my sister’s body.
I swat the back of his head. “Stop checking out my sister!”
He drains the rest of his whiskey before raising his hand to request another.
My eyes roll as I slide off the barstool and drag Lily to the other side of the bar, far away from Lorenzo’s burning gaze.
“Since when are you friends with Lorenzo?” she asks with a frown.
“You know him?”
“Not really.” Her nose twitches. “He passes by the shop every Friday to pick up two custom bouquets.”
