Page 51 of See You There
Cara shrugged. “Skye made a comment once that she was surprised Dahlia hadn’t moved on. She must have a contract keeping her with him.”
Luke recalled when Dahlia had asked him if he knew any contract lawyers. Was that what she meant? He stayed silent. Luke trusted his sister would keep it to herself, but he wouldn’t betray Dahlia’s trust.
“Our ‘connection’ is just about at an end. If you can keep it in your pants that is,” James muttered.
“Um, what?” Cara’s violet eyes widened. “Do you like her?”
“I didn’t say that,” Luke said, knowing he sounded like a petulant teenager.
“That’s not a no,” Wes said, and Cara gave him an approving smile.
Great! The last thing I need is another pain in the ass brother.
“Just because you married the brat doesn’t mean you get to play.”
“That’s exactly what it means.” Cara stretched up to kiss her new husband. “You all just have to deal with it.”
After decimating the charcuterie, James left. Wes excused himself back to his computers, leaving Luke and Cara alone.
Cara eyed him across the island. “Do you want a glass of wine or something?”
Luke hesitated. He’d lingered because he had questions about Dahlia. But he wasn’t sure he wanted to reveal himself by asking his sister.
“Dahlia isn’t what I expected.”
Cara’s eyes zeroed in on his face. “What do you mean? Better or worse?”
He could see by her expression she thought she already had her answer. But after James’s comments, she was going to make him say it.
“Neither. She’s just different.”
“Uh, huh.” Cara looked dubious.
“I saw a few interviews she’s done with her boyfriend.”
Why had he admitted that?
There was no good reason for Luke to have researched Dahlia on the internet, but once he started this afternoon, he couldn’t stop. “It’s like she’s a different person. Listening to him, and now having spent some time with her, I can’t see what they have in common other than this movie.”
“That’s probably because that’s all it is.”
Luke’s eyebrows met over his nose. “She doesn’t strike me as that shallow a person.”
Cara picked up what was left of the dishes and set them in the sink. “Like I said, I don’t know her very well. She didn’t talk about herself.” Her tone was careful, but she met and held his gaze as if she were trying to impart some piece of key information.
When Luke didn’t respond, she continued. “Most of the time when she was in the trailer with Chandler, she did her best to completely ignore him.”
“They were broken up for most of shooting, weren’t they?”
Cara rolled her lips in, trying not to smile. “Youhavebeen catching up on the gossip blogs.”
“Research about what I was getting into with a new client.” It wasn’t a complete lie. Hewascurious about Dahlia.
“Right.” Cara wasn’t buying it. “She didn’t react to him like an ex. It was more like she couldn’t stand him and did her best to pretend he didn’t exist. Chandler, on the other hand, did everything he could to annoy her. And not in that ‘he’s mean toyou because he likes you’ crap. Genuinely, just enjoyed messing with her.”
“But they’re dating… They were at that party together. She tried to help him after he was shot.”
Cara had a funny expression on her face. “You’d have to be pretty cold to leave someone bleeding to death on the ground. That doesn’t mean they’re in a romantic relationship. Skye made a comment once about how seeing Chandler and Lia—sorry Dahlia— together, it was obvious.”
