Page 96 of Bound to You

There’s not enough effort in me to try and figure out what these two are up to tonight.

Rafael’s date goes for six hundred euros. It’s a good start, but we’re going to need more than that to make any impact for Nora.

My brother comes up beside me. “Hey.” The nervous look in his eyes and the wariness in his voice tells me all that I need to know.

“You knew they were coming, didn’t you? Why didn’t you say anything?”

“You’ve been pretty hard to track down.”

“You could’ve picked up the phone jackass,” May smacks him round the head.

“Miles, seriously?”

“Okay, I’m sorry, I only found out last night when Mom messaged asking me to have breakfast with them today when they got in.” I couldn’t have been more spot on with my guess.

“You didn’t think about giving me a heads up?”

“Honestly no. If I’d told you, you would’ve spent all night tossing and turning figuring out what you wanted to say or what they were going to say, I know what you’re like Isla.”

I tip my head at him.

“It’s true!”

“Yeah, he’s not wrong,” May chimes in.

“Okay, whose side are you on?”

“With all of this going on,” Miles gestures around us. “I didn’t want to add another thing for you to turn over in your head. I’m sorry.”

I sigh. I can’t be bothered being angry at him right now. There’s no room in my brain for anything else tonight.

My mind sparks with an idea.

“There is one way you can make it up to me.” May’s eyes glitter as she figures me out.

“What is it?” he asks.

“Get up on that stage and make us some money,” I nod to where Heath is currently being bid on.

He looks back at me with pleading eyes and I just raise my eyebrows in challenge. He looks to May and is met with the same exact look.

“Fine.”

May claps as he walks away from us up to the side of the stage where Leo is standing. He pats my brother on the back as Stefan calls him onto the stage.

Miles walks up the stairs with a feigned confidence. This isn’t his scene, and that makes this all the better. Don’t get me wrong, Miles goes to plenty of events, but putting him up for an auctioned date is a little out of his comfort zone. May and I giggle as people start bidding on him.

“What is he doing up there?” Marina’s voice is barely a whisper from behind us.

“Who?” May asks.

“My brother?”

Marina nods slowly. May and I share a confused look.

She looks like she’s seen a ghost as she looks at Miles, and I instantly remember what Leo said to me when Miles first showed up at the bar on my birthday. “Wait, do you two know each other?” I ask.

“You could say that.” She hasn’t taken her eyes from him once, tracking his every movement.

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