Page 62 of Burning Love
“It sounds it,” Jace said and moved to the front of the house to see who could be here.
The last person he wanted to see was his sister.
“Shit.”
“Who is it?”
“Kelsey.”
“Who’s Kelsey?” she asked.
Jace walked over and ran his thumb across the arc of her eyebrows, then leaned down to kiss her quickly. “My stepsister.”
“Oh. Do you want me to hide?”
He laughed. “Your car is in the driveway. There is nowhere to go.”
“Am I just your friend? How is this being played?”
“You’re thinking too much. Relax.”
He didn’t know how he wanted it to come out, but there was no hiding it now.
His doorbell rang, so he walked over to open it.
“Hey,” Kelsey said. “Sorry to just drop over like this.”
“Yet you did. Come in.”
She had a bag in her hand and he smelled food.
“Mom sent me over,” Kelsey said. “She made a bunch of stuffed shells and asked me to pick up some and then deliver them to you. It could have been Janey that stopped over rather than me.”
“You’re better.”
He stepped back and took the bag out of her hands. “Come meet Talia. I’m positive that is what you want to do.”
His sister was grinning. “I hadn’t planned it this way. I wish I had. Janey is going to be so mad, but I don’t care.”
“Hi,” Talia said.
“I’m Kelsey, Jace’s sister. Nice to meet you. I want to say I’ve heard so much, but the truth is, I’ve heard nothing.”
“Thanks, Kelsey,” he said dryly.
“It’s fine. This is new and we are feeling it out.”
He wasn’t sure how to take that truthful statement, but he couldn’t fault her for saying it.
“Do you have a last name?” Kelsey asked.
Talia looked at him. “It’s Talia Carlisle,” he said.
“Oh,” Kelsey said. His sister would have caught on fairly quickly. “Related to West?”
“That’s my older brother,” she said. “Jace didn’t know that right away.”
“I don’t follow that shit.”
