Page 66 of Accidental Theirs
“Then it’s a good thing we’re not together anymore.”
I blink.
I didn’t know they were fully together. This sounds like less of a casual fling than I thought it was.
“Good,” Richard mutters, and suddenly there’s tension in the air.
I clear my throat. “Olivia and I get along swimmingly.”
She looks up at me with a slight grin. “Sure.”
Sure? What’sthatsupposed to mean?
Why do I feel suddenly irritated?
I roll my head around on my shoulders.
“Could you give me a ride home, Sebastian?” she asks sweetly, all of a sudden, and I frown.
“You didn’t bring your car?”
She shakes her head. “Had Roland drop me off. I haven’t been feeling well.”
Richard makes a distressed sound in the back of his throat. “What’s wrong, honey?”
She smiles at him. “Just food poisoning. Bad grocery store sushi.”
He wrinkles his nose. “That’s why I don’t eat American sushi.”
I chuckle. “Got to remind us about your years in Japan, don’t you?”
“It was the nineteen-nineties. And your mother...”
Both Olivia and I groan.
It’s a story we’ve both heard a million times, and Olivia and I both look at each other, smiling.
My heart seems to beat an extra couple of beats, and it startles me.
No.
I push all thoughts out of my mind and focus back on Richard’s story, which I could recite myself.
“And then she tipped the waiter a hundred bucks,” Olivia finishes for him.
Richard laughs, his face a little flushed from conversation and wine.
I notice that Olivia hasn’t drunk a drop and wonder if she regrets the other night.
She certainly hasn’t followed up about it. Part of me is a little disappointed that she hasn’t.
I wouldn’t sleep with her again, of course.
I mean... if she were anyone other than Richard’s daughter, I wouldn’t think twice about asking her for an encore...
“Penny for your thoughts.” Richard jolts me out of my thoughts.
Not for a trillion dollars.
