I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but the stuff they serve here has no punch, or flavour for that matter.
Jax chuckles. “You’re such a Frazer. You and your coffee.”
“Fine wine and good coffee, it’s what makes the world go around,” Gabriel says. “I’m sure that’s why Caleb is besties with Tristan. He delivers the best wines.”
“He just needs to befriend someone who owns a coffee plantation,” I say. “Tristan’s now supplying to the hotels you know.”
“No work,” they say together.
I growl.
“What else is there to talk about?” I say.
“Please, sis, that’s just sad,” Cal says, bursting into the room. “If the only thing you can talk about is work, you seriously need to get a life!” He turns to his friend in the corner. “Jax, you need to do something.”
Jax coughs and Caleb flinches, as he realises what he’s just implied. Gabriel chuckles.
Men!
“It’s not the only thing,” I say defensively.
“Name me one thing then,” Caleb says, folding his arms over his chest and lifting his chin.
“Running,” I say, mirroring his pose. I grimace as pain shoots through my stomach my hand moving to my stitches.
Caleb frowns.
My mind goes back to this same conversation I had with Jax.
“Oh, running, such an interesting and stimulating topic of conversation,” Caleb says with an exaggerated yawn. “Have you been running anywhere interesting lately?”
I throw a grape at him, which he catches with ease before popping it into his mouth.
He grins. “Thanks.”
Leah returns with a tray full of rich-smelling coffee. My mouth waters as she hands me the first cup. I cradle the dark liquid in my hands.
“Books,” I say. “I like to read.”
Jax chokes on the mouthful of coffee he’s just taken.
I shoot him a questioning look before remembering the book he caught me reading in the Maldives.
“That was a one-off,” I hiss.
“If you say so.”
“What am I missing?” Caleb asks his friend.
“Nothing,” Jax says, but his smirk speaks a thousand words.
“Was my sister reading a romance book?” Cal’s voice sounds incredulous.
“My lips are sealed.”
I glare at them both.
“For goodness sake, I picked it up in the hotel library,” I lie, shooting Jax a look that tells him not to contradict me. He grins, running a finger over his lips, sealing them shut. I scowl at him. “I couldn’t concentrate on the audiobooks I’d downloaded,” I add for extra clarity, making the others laugh.
