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Oh. “He is?” I whisper.
“Yeah. He is.”
“I didn’t know that.”
“Maybe if you picked up the phone and called him, you’d know,” he says angrily.
“That’s not fair. You all ganged up on me last week.”
“Your friends care. They were trying to make a messed-up situation better for you,” he explains.
Okay. Now I feel like a bit of a bitch. “You’re seriously okay with this whole fake dating story the media is portraying?”
“Yes,” he says firmly. Oh. “I saw the hatred in that man’s eyes toward you.”
“It’s been a week, and nothing’s happened. Everyone can relax now.”
Felix frowns at me as we sit in silence staring at one another. “I took your advice, and I told my lawyer that I wouldn’t be giving Cynthia the house. And that I knew about her parties with Rori and Dave,” Felix says, changing the subject.
“You did?”
He nods. “Her lawyer dropped the request.”
“So, you didn’t have to pay her?”
He shakes his head. “No. But it does mean she can talk shit about me if she wants.”
“Don’t think she’ll do that now that she knows you know about her sex parties.” I smirk.
“I would have loved to have seen her face when the lawyer read out that I knew about her girls’ nights.”
“Could you imagine if her new partner was in the meeting, too?”
“Stephen would be having a lot of questions on why she quickly wanted to drop her request.” He chuckles.
“You think he knows?”
Felix shrugs. “Doubtful.”
The waiter brings out our lunch, he is slightly confused when he sees my mother gone and Felix in her place.
“Orchid emergency,” I tell him. He gives me a smile and walks away.
“So, this is your family’s hotel.”
“It is.”
“It’s nice.”
“That’s all Mom and Dad,” I say, digging into my lobster tails.
“They really are nice. They are very proud of you,” he says.
“Really?”
“Um, yeah, they didn’t stop talking about everything you have accomplished at dinner.”
Oh wow. That’s unexpected seeing as Sam is the golden child. “Still weirds me out that you had dinner with my family, and I wasn’t there.”