“Nah, don’t think so.” Luca stared into his cup. “He’s got Tony and Nick. Doubt he needs me and Teo, too.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t be so sure about that.” Gina took ahold of her brother’s hand and squeezed it. “If Tony has his way, they’re gonna open up a place in Wrigleyville.”
“Let them,” he said, his nostrils flaring. “Tony and Lina can run it, too.”
Where the fuck was this anger coming from? Did their eldest brother piss him off somehow? Twelve years her senior, Tony could be bossy. Hell, he acted likehewas their dad half the time. And his wife? Gina didn’t pay her any mind. Nineteen and pregnant when she married her brother, Lina wasn’t much older than she was.
“Lina’s too busy popping out Tony’s babies to do anything else. You’ve got time to figure out what you want, babes, and you will.” She kissed his cheek. “Okay, Luca Bobuca, I gotta crash.”
“I’ll try to keep Teo quiet when he gets up.”
“Knowing him, he won’t wake up until after I do.” Gina drained her cup and giggled.
“I’d say you’re right, except he’s on delivery duty at noon.” Luca grabbed her hand. “Hey, that reminds me. Someone was asking about you last night.”
“Who?” she asked, curious.
“Matt McCready.”
Oh?
“Do I know him?”
“You’re shittin’ me, right?” His mouth hung open. “Tony’s friend from high school. He’s in Venery. You delivered a pizza to his house, for fuck’s sake.”
“You think I remember all of Tony’s friends?” But she remembered him. “I was like six when he graduated.”
“So? I know you know who he is.”
Of course, she did. Gina knew who he was when she delivered his pizza, too. But everybody knew who he was. Even if they didn’t grow up living a block away from him. She vaguely remembered Matt McCready, along with Taylor Kerrigan, Kit King, Bo Robertson, and Sloan Michaels hanging out at her house with Tony after school, but she was only four or five back then.
“What did he say?” She was more than curious now, because why the fuck would he ask about her?
“I think he likes you or something.”
And she laughed. “I think you’re delusional.”
“He wanted to know if you were single.” Lifting his hands, her brother shrugged. And then he grinned. “I told him you were.”
The fuck?
“Jesus, Luca.” She wanted to smack that smug look right off his face.
“You’re welcome.”
Gina wrenched her bag out of the chair, and cocking her hip, she pulled the hair on her brother’s chest. “I wouldn’t get involved with someone like him if he were the last guy on Earth.”
“Ow.” With a smack to her hand, Luca looked at her like she was crazy. “Someone like him? Matt’s a good dude.”
“Maybe so. Still, not interested.”
His lip curling, he leaned in the chair and nodded. “Vinny fucked you up good, huh?”
Gina turned her back on him without an answer. The question didn’t deserve one.
“Go out with him, Gina. Get yourself a little. You probably got cobwebs growing in there.”
“God, you’re disgusting.” And she started down the hall.
