“Some of my mom’s friends are visiting her this morning. Dad’s going to call when they leave. Aiden and I might just hang around here until then. What are you up to?”
“I have another client coming in soon. Until then, I’m working on the bills. And tonight I’m finishing the laundry I started yesterday.”
“Laundry. You really know how to have fun when I’m not around.”
“What can I say? I go wild and crazy when you’re away.”
What kind of fun kept you out so late last night?
While he’d given her no reason to not trust him, she couldn’t seem to help it.
“Besides seeing your mom, what have you been up to?”
She sounded suspicious to her own ears, but if Matt noticed, he didn’t comment.
“Aiden and I went to our cousin’s house last night. Sophie was at the hospital visiting when we got there, and I hadn’t seen her in a while.”
If Matt and Aiden visited a cousin last night, how did he explain the photos she’d seen? Aiden hadn’t been present in any of them. And what about the similarity between the woman seen getting into his car and the one he’d danced with at the wedding?
“You have more cousins than anyone I know.”
“Don’t remind me. No matter where I go, I run into them.”
“Sophie didn’t go to the wedding?”
Okay, so she was a chicken and afraid to ask the questions she wanted answers to.
“No, she and her husband had plans already, and he wasn’t willing to change them. Chase can be inflexible.”
“Were there a lot of guests at the wedding?”
“About a hundred, I’d say. For a Sherbrooke wedding, that’s tiny.”
Over the past six years or so, members of the Sherbrooke family had been getting married left and right. Photos of many had graced magazine pages and been splashed all over the internet, so she had an idea of their typical size as well as the well-known guests usually in attendance. She didn’t know anything about the bride and groom but assumed their guest list had been similar.
“Everyone wondered why you weren’t with me, including my mom when I saw her yesterday.”
The second part of Matt’s comment caught Liv’s attention. “You told your parents about me?”
Maybe she was letting her insecurities get the better of her. If he’d told his mom and dad about her, perhaps he really did see their relationship lasting.
“I didn’t have to. Mom saw the pictures of us together. Michayla has worked for my parents for years and makes sure to share every headline or article she finds with my mom.”
There goes that optimistic theory.
“She wants to meet you. I told her we’ll hopefully visit in the fall. When I get back, let’s pick a date that works for you.”
Right now, she wasn’t convinced he’d remember her name by the fall.
“Uh, yeah. We, um, can probably do that.”
She’d sounded off since she answered the phone. Liv’s answer just now, though, convinced Matt he wasn’t imagining things. Something was wrong.
“Are you not ready to meet my parents?”
Liv hadn’t blinked an eye when he’d proposed the idea before he left. But it sounded like she was having second thoughts now.
“Of course I am.”
