Page 49 of Power Move
“What?”
“Yeah. The Queen’s brother and his husband. No joke.”
I gaped.
“Buckle up, baby. These people… they aren’t like anyone else. Even Cal isn’t like them. He married in, but it’s not the same. I got you.”
I smiled, realizing what she meant. We were outsiders looking in.
“Don’t scare her off, Chlo.” Davey approached. “She’s new.”
“I like her. I’m doing the opposite. I’m spilling tea about this place.”
“What do you think of the area?” Davey asked.
“It’s beautiful. We used to come up here to play at the beach as kids, but… it hits differently in these digs.”
“Oh, shit. There’s my idiot brother! One sec,” Chloe raced off.
“She’s… a lot,” Davey said. “She’s Lanie’s best friend and might as well be one of us.”
Not in her point of view.
“You’re staying with us,” Davey said. “At the house. Not here.”
I raised an eyebrow.
“Look, it wasn’t my idea, Eva. I worried it would make you uncomfortable, but my sister was insistent. She’s being all protective.”
“She knows about me—not the whole story,” I said. “So maybe that’s what it is?”
“That explains her urge to shame me for asking you to do anything,” Davey chuckled.
It was sort of adorable.
“Did my mother introduce herself yet?” Davey asked.
“No. I have stayed as far away from that as possible.”
“You’ll be fine.”
That’s not what Chloe said.
“I am going to get through this, and that is all, David,” I said.
“You’ll be fine. Norm has sung all your praises.”
“That’s sweet of him.”
“Maybe he has a crush?” Davey joked. “Either way, he thinks you are smart.”
“That man is closeted,” I said. “I hate to break it to you, but his friend… he’s not a friend.”
“What?” Davey’s astoundment surprised me.
“Who is?” Chloe returned with Davey and Daphne’s sister Delanie.
“She thinks Norm is…” Davey lowered his voice, “gay.”
