Heading back to the room to grab something to wear from my closet, I smirked at his remark.“Good luck.I’m pretty sure she’s fucking my cousin.”
“And he’s leaving today,” Gathe replied.“Although Kash said she was Calvin’s best friend.”
I laughed then.Yeah, right.“Sure she is,” I said sarcastically.“When have you known a man to be best friends with a female?Especially a hot one?”
Gathe was silent for a moment.“Uh, me.You’re forgetting Saylor.”
Okay, yeah, fine.There was that.But we’d grown up differently.Saylor had belonged to Crosby since fucking birth, it seemed.
“Not the same.”
“And why is that?”
“I don’t know,” I snapped, growing annoyed.“I’m not debating this shit with you.Do what you want.I don’t give a fuck.”
He chuckled.“I’ll see you at breakfast.”
“Is there no food at your house?”I asked as I pulled on a pair of jeans.
“Yeah, but there are no sad, in-need-of-comfort smokeshows.”
Rolling my eyes, I picked my phone back up and ended the call.He’d be here soon enough anyway.I was done listening to him chatter like a damn woman.
Shoving my phone into my back pocket, I went to the door and jerked it open.When I stepped into the hallway, I heard talking coming from the open door next to me.Glancing down at it, I knew that was either Elsie’s room or Calvin’s.It was one of two guest bedrooms in the house.The other was directly across from it.That door was open too.
“I’d delay my flight until tonight if I could.But you know I can’t.”Calvin’s voice carried from inside the room.
If she was replying, I couldn’t hear it.
Shaking my head, I left to go to the kitchen.Just friends, my ass.
They’d probably slept in the same bed.Not that Gathe would give a shit.The one thing I didn’t have to worry about with him was losing him to a fucking female.He was as likely to get tied up in a relationship as I was.
The smell of breakfast met me when my foot hit the bottom of the staircase.Hawkins came barreling out into the hallway from the kitchen with a waffle on a fork in his hand, waving it around like a flag.I could hear Halo calling after him, and the sight made me grin.Moving quickly, I blocked his escape path and picked him up.
“Gotcha!”I said as he giggled and squirmed to get loose.
“Thank you, Forge,” Halo said, meeting me at the doorway.“He’s wild this morning.”
I handed him over to her.“Is there a time when he isn’t wild?”
She shrugged.“I guess not.”
“Wilma made hashbrown casserole,” I said, walking over to the stove.“I love her.”
“No, no, Hawks,” Halo said, and I heard something hit the floor.
Grabbing a plate, I started to get a large serving of the casserole.Wilma was one of the reasons I hadn’t been in a rush to move.The Bowens’ place may be a bachelor pad, but they didn’t have a cook this good.
“Good morning.”
Calvin’s voice interrupted my thoughts, but I didn’t glance back to greet him.I had priorities, and he wasn’t one of them.
“Good morning,” Halo replied.“We have breakfast if y’all are hungry.Please help yourselves.Oz and Winslet will be here soon.She called and said to let you know they were running a few minutes late.”
Probably because my brother couldn’t keep his hands off his wife.I rolled my eyes and grabbed four slices of bacon.I finally turned around and forced a half smile in my cousin’s direction before walking to the table.
“Wook, Fowge!Wook!I can fwy!”Hawkins called out as he climbed up into the chair and held out his arms, preparing to jump.
