Page 66 of Accidental Theirs

“Then it’s a good thing we’re not together anymore.”

I blink.

I didn’t know they were fully together. This sounds like less of a casual fling than I thought it was.

“Good,” Richard mutters, and suddenly there’s tension in the air.

I clear my throat. “Olivia and I get along swimmingly.”

She looks up at me with a slight grin. “Sure.”

Sure? What’sthatsupposed to mean?

Why do I feel suddenly irritated?

I roll my head around on my shoulders.

“Could you give me a ride home, Sebastian?” she asks sweetly, all of a sudden, and I frown.

“You didn’t bring your car?”

She shakes her head. “Had Roland drop me off. I haven’t been feeling well.”

Richard makes a distressed sound in the back of his throat. “What’s wrong, honey?”

She smiles at him. “Just food poisoning. Bad grocery store sushi.”

He wrinkles his nose. “That’s why I don’t eat American sushi.”

I chuckle. “Got to remind us about your years in Japan, don’t you?”

“It was the nineteen-nineties. And your mother...”

Both Olivia and I groan.

It’s a story we’ve both heard a million times, and Olivia and I both look at each other, smiling.

My heart seems to beat an extra couple of beats, and it startles me.

No.

I push all thoughts out of my mind and focus back on Richard’s story, which I could recite myself.

“And then she tipped the waiter a hundred bucks,” Olivia finishes for him.

Richard laughs, his face a little flushed from conversation and wine.

I notice that Olivia hasn’t drunk a drop and wonder if she regrets the other night.

She certainly hasn’t followed up about it. Part of me is a little disappointed that she hasn’t.

I wouldn’t sleep with her again, of course.

I mean... if she were anyone other than Richard’s daughter, I wouldn’t think twice about asking her for an encore...

“Penny for your thoughts.” Richard jolts me out of my thoughts.

Not for a trillion dollars.