Page 277 of The Heart You Kept

I glance up to the golfing green and back down to the ball as I line up my shot.

“What happened to you on the weekend, Prescott?” Sinclair asks as he practice swings his golf club in the air.

“Nothing.” I take the putt. “Go. In.” I try to will the ball into the hole but it rolls straight past. “Fucker.” I roll my eyes. “This has to be the most infuriating sport of all fucking time.”

“What’s going on with you lately?”

“What do you mean?”

“Since when has a girl held you prisoner for two months?” he huffs. “How boring can you get. What the hell is happening to you?”

“No holding necessary.” We begin to walk to the next hole. “I’m there by my own free will and trust me, she’s anything but boring.”

“Since when do you hang out with the same woman all the time?”

“Since her. I bought us a house to live in together this week.”

Theo lets out a low whistle as he smiles down the fairway. “Careful, old boy.”

“That’s what I was thinking,” Sinclair chips in.

“It’s crossed my mind…that’s for sure.” I shrug and line up my shot.

Theo’s face falls. “Surely not?”

“Maybe.”

“You think she’s the one?” He frowns.

I know she is.

“Who knows,” I lie.

“Well…fuck me dead.” Sinclair sighs. “It’s all over from here, my advice is to run while you can.” He hits the ball. “And get working on that iron-clad prenup. I don’t envy her,” he adds.

“What do you mean?”

“The wolves are going to eat her alive.”

“Just worry about you,” I snap. “Still fucking your married PA?”

He winces. “Little bit.”

“I can’t wait for the day when her husband cuts off your balls in a public hanging.” I smirk as I put my putter back into my bag.

“In my defense, she’s putting it on me all the time because he has no interest in sex. So if he were doing his job correctly I wouldn’t have to do it for him.”

“So it’s a public service then?”

“Exactly,” he agrees. “He should be thanking me for taking one for the team.”

“Hey, bring Alora over on Saturday night, I’ll host dinner,” Theo says as he lines up his ball.

“I can’t, we’ll be away.”

“Where you going?”

“I’m taking her home to the UK to meet the family.”