Page 66 of Last Chance Seduction
“Mercy and I are just going to take it easy.”
“Look at that.You settling down?”Crew asked, tilting his head as he studied me.
“Well, I don’t know about that,” I sputtered.“But since you’re taken, I kind of had to move on.”
“Really?That old joke?”Sebastian said with a roll of his eyes.
Crew and I had never dated.Though, most of our family and friends had assumed we had.Instead, Crew had dated my cousin Daisy, before he had eventually ended up with Aria, Sebastian’s twin.
Now the two were engaged and happy as can be.
Considering I knew both of them had gone through hell, I was glad for Crew.Even the darkness that had usually settled into his gaze wasn’t there anymore.Sometimes a grayness settled in, but not always.
It was like the world was no longer on his shoulders, pressing him down into the ground.
And considering Sebastian had literally walked through hell, like Orpheus, I was just glad that my cousin was no longer looking back.
In fact, the man was so happy, it was a little startling.
But he and Raven not only had Sebastian’s daughter from his first love, who was now eight, they also had a three-month old at home.
It was a little ridiculous how quickly my cousins were out there breeding.
“Hey, you and Aria ever think about having kids?”
“We’ve been engaged for like a minute.So no.”Crew shook his head.“And frankly, I don’t know if we’re planning on having kids at all.”
“Aria is always good at being the auntie, but she never played with dolls as the mom as a kid.She played the cool aunt,” Sebastian explained.
“Aunt Autumn and Uncle Griffin never had kids, even with the rest of the family breeding like bunnies so we have forty-nine cousins or some shit like that.They kept it real,” Dash explained.
“You and Aria are already the best aunts and uncles that the kids could have, other than me of course,” I added.
“So should I ask about you and Mercy then?”Sebastian asked, being far too nosy.
I blinked, my throat suddenly going dry.
“Not so nice when the shoe is on the other foot, is it?”My cousin grinned.
“Seriously, you are the most meddlesome of all of the cousins when it comes to our relationships, so we need to hear about you and Mercy,” Crew put in.
“Wait, are we talking about Lex and his new true love?”Dash asked, drawing out the word love.
Once again, my mouth went dry, and I dropped my club.
“What?No, it’s not like that.I mean, what?Fuck.Or just, you know.”
“No, we don’t know,” Crew said slowly.“One minute you’re neighbors, the other minute you’re spending the entire week together, and I have to hear about it because you didn’t spend as much time with the family over the holidays that you usually do.And I’m not even a Montgomery.”
“You’re as good as,” Dash corrected.“Seriously, though.I thought it was all fake.I mean, so that way you could tell off Gia, and make sure her dad knew that you were a nice family man.You know, ready to settle down and make sure the company’s good.Not that I agreed with it.It was an idiotic move, but it was real, right?”
I opened my mouth to say something, anything.Because I wasn’t quite sure when it had gone from fake to real.Because it wasn’t as if we had been fake fucking for the whole week.And even just calling it fucking seemed rude, demoralizing.Because I wouldn’t have gotten her that charm bracelet, wouldn’t have been thinking about her for practically all hours of the day for the entire month, if it was fake.
However, I wasn’t able to say a thing.
Because the blood drained from my face as I realized we weren’t the only people on this part of the course.
I turned slightly as Dash cursed under his breath.
