Page 61 of Knot your Princess
“I don’t know you.”
“Do you want to? I mean, it’s only fair…”
Her eyes narrow but then widen when she smiles. “Oh? How so?”
“Cain and Trent are getting their chance. So it’s only fair you take all three of us. No?”
“So you fancy me?”
I freeze for a second, wondering if I heard her correctly. “What?”
“Do you fancy me?”
Her green gaze pins mine, and I chuckle. “Oh, yeah. Do you fancy me? And don’t you dare say yes because I look like Cain, or Trent, for that matter.”
She lets out a loud laugh, and the tension eases slightly. She isn’t holding my former job against me, which just proves to me how sweet and beautiful she is.
“I fancy you,” she says, giving me a bump with her shoulder. “I don’t care who you worked for. Sitting here with you, I feel something. I know you do too. There’s a lot to figure out, but I’d like to start by getting to know you better.”
“I’d like that too.” I mean it with every cell in my body. “Fancy a swim in the lake?”
“Love one. Give me ten minutes, and I’ll meet you down there.”
“Deal. But before you go…my envelope.”
“Don’t have it. Enzo took it.”
“Did he?” I growl softly.
“What was in it?” she asks, eyes narrowed.
“A cameo brooch.”
“Oh, Trent has that,” she says immediately, surprising me. “Enzo took it from the smashed-up van and gave it to him.”
“Uhm…” I frown, taking that in. “Interesting.”
“What is it?”
I purse my lips, wondering if I should tell her. I suppose after telling her who my former employer was, there isn’t anything I can’t tell her now. “It’s a key to a box that belonged to my,ourbirth mother.”
“Do you have the box?”
That is something I’m not ready to share yet, seeing as I only just found it but can’t get to it. “No.”
‘What’s in it?”
I shrug. “Not sure.”
“Do you have an idea where it is?”
“Maybe.”
She nods, letting it go for now, and I stand up when she does, watching her go into the house, knowing that I don’t have anything to wear to go swimming, but I’m completely okay with that. I have a feeling she might be as well.
ChapterForty
Sugar
