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He and I weren’t ever going to be best friends, but I didn’t need that from him. I had his respect, and he had mine. Me taking a bullet protecting his wife had probably made the biggest inroads for me in his esteem. For me, him having a wife like Kit and a sweet baby like Joey had shifted him from “fuck that guy” to mostly tolerable.
Luca put down his coffee cup to toy with the ring on Saoirse’s finger. “I always hear about Saoirse’s half of the business. What have you been working on lately, Miles?”
I raised a brow at Saoirse. “I’m disappointed you don’t talk about me to your husband.”
“Oh, I talk about you.” She smirked. “But not about your clients.”
“I’m intrigued. All I do is work and sleep. Unless you’re the one who put the hidden camera in my bedroom, you won’t have anything to say about how I sleep.”
Weston choked on his water. “What was that? A hidden camera?”
I waved him off while Elise patted his back. “That was a joke, Westie.” Then I cocked my head. “Or was it? I have seen a little green light in the corner…”
Elise knocked against my arm. “Don’t tease Weston. He’ll have his security team sweeping your house for bugs before we even leave the restaurant.”
I huffed a laugh. “Don’t worry. I don’t know any secrets about Andes, so I can’t spill them.”
My brother gave me a hard look. I braced for the admonishment to come, but he took a breath and switched gears. “I’m surprised you didn’t invite Daisy today. She would have been welcome.”
Luca lifted his coffee cup. “That’s what we’ve talked about.”
I swiveled back to Saoirse. “You’re discussing my dating life with Luca? Is married life that boring?”
“There’s nothing boring about being married to Luca,” Saoirse replied. “I didn’t think you had a dating life until Elise told me she’d met your girlfriend—who is our client.”
Elliot hissed air through his teeth. “Dating a client?”
I lowered my chin. “You married your assistant.”
Kit snickered. “Miles has a point. Don’t throw stones.”
The look he gave her transformed him from Elliot Levy, powerful CEO, to Kit’s adoring husband. They’d been together a year and a half, and it still startled me to see Elliot openly displaying his heart.
Just like it had startled me the first time I’d realized he’d actually had one.
“We met before she became a client,” I explained.
When I came up with the fake dating scheme, I hadn’t considered having to defend our faux relationship to these guys. That was on brand for me, though. When it came to others, I could see every angle of a situation. I was myopic around my own issues.
“I didn’t think it would bother you,” I told Saoirse.
“It doesn’t, really.” She shook her head. “We’re supposed to discuss everything that might affect Peak. A conversation would have been nice.”
“You’re right,” I conceded. “I apologize.”
Baby Joey smacked my leg again, crying, “Mah!” I interpreted that as her saying my name. The kid was going to get all the bouncies she wanted.
“I really liked her,” Elise chimed in. “And I could tell Miles is smitten.”
Saoirse’s brow winged. “Smitten? Now I need to see you together.”
“I do too,” Kit agreed. “I didn’t know Miles could be smitten.”
“She’s coming to our wedding.” Elise reached for Weston’s hand. “Under a month now. I can’t believe it.”
“Not soon enough,” Weston murmured.
“The wedding? Really?” Elliot shot them a dubious look. “You approved of this?”
