Page 38 of Havoc
Kieran shrugged. “I don’t know. She wants to run it by your girlfriends and boyfriend to ensure they’re okay with it first.”
“Makes sense,” Remy stated with a chuckle.
“If they’re all on board, we can’t say no,” Paetyn agreed as the other men laughed.
“I like how we’re pretending that any of us tell them no,” Nik stated.
He had a point. Remy had witnessed Kieran’s inability to say no to Alijah on several occasions, this trip being one of them since they would both be out of the office. Remy knew he probably wouldn’t be able to tell Lawrence no, either. Though, he hadn’t had an occasion yet where he had been put to the test.
Anywhere they went would be fine with Remy. He enjoyed vacationing all over, so he wasn’t picky and hadn’t taken a real one yet that year.
“How long is she planning it for?” Paetyn questioned.
“I agreed to a week,” Kieran responded.
Remy knew Kieran wouldn’t agree to take more than a week off if both of them were going to be out of the office, and he was also sure he’d try to check in on work while they were wherever their significant others decided they wanted to go.
They played two games with a new group before they left the gym, going their separate ways.
Remy returned to his condo, entered his ensuite, and turned on the shower. As it heated, he stripped out of his clothes, placed them into the hamper, and set his shoes outside the door. He brushed his teeth before getting into the shower.
After his shower, he dried off before moisturizing and pulling on a pair of boxers and basketball shorts. With no plans for the rest of the day, he didn’t feel the need to get dressed.
Going into the kitchen, he looked through his refrigerator for something to cook, and when he came up empty, he decided toorder takeout. He grabbed his phone off the table by the door, where he’d put it when he came in.
Remy scrolled through several delivery apps before ordering from a sandwich shop. He ordered their special and their house lemonade.
While he waited, he sat on the couch, scrolling through the movie channels, and settled on an action movie.
Remy picked up his ringing phone. His mother’s name flashed across the screen. He’d been sitting on the couch watching another movie after lunch.
“Hey, Ma.”
“Hi, my boy. How are you?”
“I’m good. How are you? How’s dad?”
“We’re both doing well. Catch me up on what I’ve missed since we spoke last week.”
Remy refrained from rolling his eyes because he wouldn’t put it past his mother to be able to tell he did so. They spoke weekly, and she insisted that he run down his week for her each time they did. When it started back when he’d been attending college, she’d gone day by day and asked him what he’d done. Over the years, it’d gotten better.
He knew it was just because she wanted to keep up with him and things that happened in his life, and while Remy had no problem with that. It got to be a bit much sometimes.
He and his mother filled each other in for the next forty-five minutes on what they’d done over the week. She even told him that his father had picked up a new hobby, which they were sure he’d get bored of reasonably quickly since that was how it usually went. It almost felt like each time he spoke to his parents, his dad had found a new hobby and dropped his previous one.
“Your father and I will be visiting in August, and when we do, I expect to meet your new boyfriend.”
“I’ll ask him, Ma, but I won’t force him into a meeting if he’s uncomfortable with it.”
“I wouldn’t expect you to,” his mother responded. “But if he says yes, we can all spend a day together. I can convince him you’re a good catch.”
Remy shook his head. His mother was ready for him to settle down. As her only child, she was ready for him to get married and have kids. She wanted to see the last one happen more than the other.
“It’s more like he’s the good catch,” Remy responded.
“I’ll take your word for it until I meet him. I’m going to let you go. I have to go to the store and grab a few things for dinner. I’ll talk to you later. Love you, my boy.”
“Love you too, Ma.”
