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When we’re all just picking at the remnants of our breakfasts, I pull out my phone and shoot a text to Cat.
Spend the afternoon with me.
When her phone lights up beside her, she turns it over and looks at it. Biting her lip, she taps out a reply.
“What do you have going on this afternoon, Cat?” Cash asks after the server drops off our checks.
“Um, not much. I probably need to head back to Providence. I haven’t been home in a while.”
“Everything all right with Mia?” he asks.
My ears perk up at his question. The way he asks is like he knows. But Cat said no one knows the real her. No one but me. I love the notion of holding her secrets.
She looks in my direction and then back toward her brother. “Everything’s fine.I promise,” she emphasizes. “You know how Mia is,” she adds.
I narrow my eyes. Does he?
“You’ll really be at the game next Saturday?” he asks, his previous question all but forgotten.
I check my phone while they continue talking.
Kitten: What do you have in mind?
I quickly type back,
Another lesson.
A shiver of excitement only I would recognize passes across Cat’s chest and shoulders as she reads the text.
Kitten: Penthouse?
I shake my head.
I’ll text you the address.
Kitten: I really need to go back to my apartment to get more clothes for this week.
Her reply is laced with hesitation. She doesn’t want to go back there. She wants to stay with me, but she doesn’t know how to do both. Good thing she’s dating a billionaire. Not that she isn’t one as well. Honestly, part of me wants to knock Carter in the head for allowing her to do everything herself. The other part of me loves that she doesn’t allow them to push her around. That she doesn’t rely on the family name.
Let me take care of everything. I know you don’t normally let go, but please, Kitten, just let go for today.
She bites her lip, and then after a moment’s hesitation, she simply nods.
“Who are you texting?” Frank asks quietly beside her. While her brothers seem happy to take Cat at her word, nothing seems to get past Frank. I couldn’t help but notice the way he was watching me before. As if he knew precisely where my hand had been. The kid makes me nervous.
“Just a friend,” Cat replies, unbothered by his inquisition. They must be close too. More ties to unravel. More layers of Cat to uncover.
“Seeing anyone?” he asks, his voice still low. Carter and Cash are focused on their conversation relating to seeing their grandfather this afternoon. Cash is obviously bothered about not being invited, and Carter is all too happy to switch places.
Cat gives him a coy half grin. “It’s new.”
And now I smile. Because she’s not hiding it. We may not be out in the open, but she isn’t hiding her relationship status. Pride fills me, knowing I’m the one who put that look on her face.
“Whoever it is, they better be good to you,” Frank says, his expression stoic. I don’t miss how he doesn’t say he. So Cash isn’t the only one who knows about Mia.
Interesting.
Cat’s reply pulls my attention right back to her, though. “He’s very good to me.”
