Page 187 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 10
She looked around again. "So why aren't there any decorations? There isn't a single picture anywhere."
"I wasn't sure how long I'd be staying for."
"Why?"
I shifted in my chair. "Like I told you before, I needed a change. But I wasn't sure if the change would be permanent." I came here on a whim. I’d always wanted to visit Delaware. Rumor had it that people were nicer here than in the city. I was finding that to be true.
"Do you still think you'll go back to New York?"
I didn't want to lose her. Whatever this was between us, I didn't want to picture it ending. We had only just started dating.
The timer on the oven went off.
"There's nothing left for me in New York." I got up and went back into the kitchen. I grabbed some potholders and pulled the casserole dish out of the oven. I hoped that was all the questions she had. I just wanted to eat in peace. And stare at her. I could stare at her for hours in silence and be perfectly content. I set the dish down on the table and scooped some out for both of us.
She didn't even pick up her fork. "So, the move is permanent now?"
I’m not leaving you, if that’s what you’re worried about.I gave her a smile. "I believe so."
"What made you change your mind?"
Apparently she was not content with silence. But this was another easy question. There was only one thing that had changed my mind. "You."
She looked down at her plate and blushed. She laughed like she didn’t believe me and then took a bite of the vodka chicken. "This is delicious."
"Thank you."
She looked back up at me.
"Do you have any more questions for me, Penny?" I truly wanted to be able to answer them. For her. I wanted her to know that I was serious about her.
"Only a million more."
I laughed.
"Tell me about your family."
I slowly finished chewing the bite I’d just taken, trying to figure out how to word a response. "Well, I have an older sister and a younger brother."
"Tell me about them."
"My sister lives in New York." I finished off my glass of champagne and poured myself another. I didn’t want to talk about Rob. Hopefully he was out of prison by now. That didn’t seem like a great first thing to say about him. She already had enough reasons to stay away from me.
"And what does your sister do?"
"She's a writer."
"Has she written anything that I may have heard of?"
"Probably not." She mostly wrote boring articles.
"And what about your brother?"
I wasn’t going to get into this. "The last time I heard from him, he was in Costa Rica."True enough.
"Wow. What does he do there?"
"Nothing as far as I know. He's been taking time off to travel."
