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“Bianca Riley Rossi,” Zara said, no longer messing around.
Bianca, unfazed by her sister’s ire kept her serious gaze on Asa.
He didn’t mind the third degree. Honestly it was nice to know her sister was looking out for her; he had nothing to hide. Not anymore. This was all information Zara should have anyway. Assuming of course that that kiss wasn’t just a kiss but was a starting place for something new for both of them.
“I had one serious girlfriend. Gemma. We met in high school, broke up when she went to college?—”
“You didn’t go to college?” Bianca asked.
“I did.” He frowned, scooping into the dough again. He placed it on the tray. “I stayed local. I never finished my degree because I thought I was gonna be a rock star.”
“And then what happened?”
“She came back and we reconnected.” His mind drifted over the hazy memories. He didn’t think about Gemma much anymore. It was sad in a way, at one time he thought she’d been his endgame. And now he barely thought about her. “We were together three years?”
And that was it.
He’d dated but nothing long term or serious.
“Do you miss her?”
“Nope.” Which was also sad. He probably wouldn’t even recognize her if he saw her.
“Why did you break up?” Bianca asked.
Zara growled and he suppressed a smile.
“Hmm, well.” He thought about how to answer that. “It didn’t work for a lot of reasons. I think I was more invested than she was after a certain point.” Did he need to mention how she’d taken Shelby’s side every time something happened? How she and Shelby were still besties? Probably not.
“Were you in love?” Bianca asked, her voice sounding funny.
“I was,” he said, not looking up. “I was all in and she…” He snorted, thinking of how gone he’d been for Gemma. The shock he’d felt when he realized she didn’t feel even a fraction of what he felt. “It was real for me.”
What else was there to say?
“Let’s get these in the oven,” he said, picking up the full cookie sheet.
It must’ve been enough to satisfy Bianca for the moment because the next question was directed at Zara.
“What happened with you and Mandy?”
Zara snorted. “Why?”
“Because it’s all over social media that you two had a falling out.”
Asa honestly didn’t care who Zara’s famous friends were. It wasn’t a world he would ever want to spend any extended time in, so the less he knew the better. Mandy wasn’t a name he was familiar with.
Zara arched an unconcerned eyebrow and nodded. “I mean, I kicked her out of the house. So there’s that.”
Bianca cackled and hopped onto the counter.
“Not a fan of Mandy’s, I take it?” Asa asked, leaning his back against the counter opposite Bianca and crossing his arms.
“God, no,” Bianca exhaled.
“You never like my friends,” Zara said with one eye narrowed at Bianca.
“Not true,” Bianca replied matter of fact. “I like Nikki and Sabine and Sunshine.” Bianca’s eyes flicked to Asa and back. “I don’t like liars is all.”
