Page 20 of The Best Friend's Billionaire Brother
The back of the SUV opened, and his mom peeked from around the back. “Wyatt, go on in the house. We’ve got this.”
Wyatt scoffed. “Aw, you don’t trust me either?”
“Not as far as I can throw you. Get!” She pointed at the house.
His sister took Gabby’s hand. “We’ll get yours too if you want to go lie down.”
He turned his attention to Gabby. “Is something wrong?”
Stephanie walked up to them and stopped. “It got hot in the car, and she’s been a little sick to her stomach.”
“I can manage my own bags,” Gabby said.
Now that Wyatt was really paying attention, her color was off, and her eyes weren’t nearly as bright as usual. Unlike when he picked her up from the airport, she’d probably forgotten take something for her carsickness this time. It bothered him that she wasn’t feeling good. “I can get you something fizzy. It would probably help your stomach.”
She gave him a weak smile. “I’ll be okay. I’m feeling better.”
“I owe you for that time I had my tonsils out.”
Carrie Anne looked from Gabby to Wyatt. “What time?”
“Right after twelfth grade. Remember? I kept getting strep.”
His sister’s eyebrows knitted together. “Oh, right. I’d gone to camp. Gabby and I went every summer. I hadn’t remembered the excuse…but she didn’t go that year.”
All Wyatt could remember was that she’d kept him company after his surgery. It hadn’t even dawned on him at the time that she should’ve been at camp. “You were supposed to go to camp that week?”
“Um…I…” Gabby set her hand over her stomach. “I’m going to lie down so I can rest before we put the tree up. I’ll see you guys later.”
“Wait…” He started to go after her, when Carrie Anne held him back. Returning his attention to her, he scrunched his eyebrows together. “Why didn’t you let me go after her?”
“Because I have a few questions for you.”
“Couldn’t they wait until I see if she’s okay?” His voice rose an octave on the last word.
His sister dropped her hands from his bicep and crossed her arms over her chest. “Wyatt, you are about as thick as they come, so I’m going to use small words and talk slowly, okay?”
“I’m not stupid.” Carrie Anne was frustrating the tar out of him. All this talk of him being dumb and thick. He was no such thing.
“How many times did Gabby and I go to camp?”
Shrugging he said, “I dunno, every year since the moment you were old enough.”
“Okay, and each time we went, we came back and we were…” She let the sentence travel off as she waved her hand, indicating she was waiting for him to finish the sentence.
“You loved it.”
“So…Gabby misses a camp that she’s gone to year after year, something she loves, to stay here…and what does she do that week instead?”
His sister was reading way too much into things. “Her parents had planned a trip, and it fell through. They’d forgotten it was camp week when they planned it.”
Carrie Anne palmed her forehead as she sighed. “Oh, Wyatt…what am I going to do with you?”
“Carrie Anne, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Gabby is like a sister to me. We’re just good friends. That’s all. She hung out with me that week because Mom didn’t want to leave me alone. I mean, I sure wasn’t anything exciting.”
“Oh my stars.” She dropped her hand from her forehead. “She likes you, Wyatt. She has since we were kids. I’ve never said anything before this because I thought you’d eventually figure it out.”
He set his hands on his hips and cast his gaze to the ground. “You’re reading way too much into this. Gabby doesn’t think of me like that.”
