I accepted my lemon drop. My second. I’d already posted a picture of myself with a drink poolside, along with a witty caption that I’d workshopped with all four of the aunties.
“You don’t want to have too many drinks. It will make you puffy. There are all sorts of alphas watching you.” Auntie Mimi’s eyes flickered toward the poolside bar, which was full of people in suits.
“My cousin’s neighbor has a daughter who is in a pack looking for an omega. She is very pretty. You like long hair, yes? I think they’re quite successful, too,” Auntie Cookie said.
“So are all those doctors.” Auntie Kiki nodded toward a jacuzzi full of alphas day drinking.
Auntie Kiki hadn’t been kidding when she said there was a doctor convention at the hotel. The finance bro one was starting tomorrow, and some were already here.
Their matchmaking was well meant but not really what I wanted, or needed, the breakup still feeling raw.
This morning we all had a lavish breakfast at the hotel and then headed to the pool. Tomorrow, I’d get that spa day, which I was really looking forward to.
“She’s looking at you,” Auntie Tiff giggled as she sipped her drink.
I looked over and couldn’t figure out who she was referring to. But there were some very good looking men and women of all designations here.
We arrived last night. Auntie Kiki and I had first flown to Honolulu to pick up Auntie Mimi, Auntie Kiki’s younger sister. She was practically a twin of Auntie Kiki, only she always wore a thick fabric headband instead ofa scarf with her bun, didn’t wear glasses, and was a little more colorful.
We then flew to Vegas, where we picked up Auntie Cookie, who was Auntie Kiki’s best friend. Her hair was short and she was the most adventurous. She’d recently divorced.
The four of us had met Auntie Tiff at the hotel in Nashville. She lived in Florida. Her dark hair was always in a long braid. She had these giant, squarish glasses that made her look like an owl.
“You know, my coworker has a son who just graduated from law school, in environmental law. He would be very supportive of you,” Auntie Tiff added.
Auntie Mimi nodded. “My neighbor’s cousin is a professor in plant biology. Has a whole pack and a nice house. Maybe on your way back to Hilo, you can stop and have coffee with them?”
My phone rang and I groaned.
“I told you to block your ex.” Auntie Kiki took another sip of her drink.
“It’s my ex’s mother. I don’t even know how she got my number.” I pressedignore.
We didn’t get along. I wasn’t the perfect blonde omega she wanted for Logan. She liked to think that they were something, just because they had a nice house, and a membership at a country club.
But I’m pretty sure they weren’t really. That’s probably why they wanted him to materich.
She called again. Before I could ignore her or block her, Auntie Cookie took my phone and put it onspeaker. “Can I help you?”
“How dare you?” a female voice raged. “I told him that you were no good, and you were just after his money, and last name. How could you?”
“I’m a little confused. He’s the one that cheated on me, stole from me, and ejected me from the trip I planned, and paid for, then went on it without me with his sidepiece. What exactly did I do wrong here? If anything, he’s the gold digger.” I rolled my eyes.
“You canceled the trip he paid for out of spite after he broke up with you,” she spat.
“Is that what he told you? He never paid me back for anything and I have receipts. I broke up withhim,because he changed my ticket to his sidepiece, and she sent me a picture of them kissing, thanking me for the free trip. Even if he broke up with me first, it’s my right to cancel a trip thatIpaid for. Given he apparently is rich, he should be fine without me paying for things. We’re over. You got your wish. Goodbye.”
I ended the call, then sent the screenshot from Drea of her text and the kiss, along with a screenshot of me breaking up with him, and proof he never paid me. I also sent her a payment request for what he owed me.
Then I blocked her.
I had zero interest in mama’s boys. Logan always made it seem like he was distancing himself from his toxic family, so he had gone all the way to Hawai'i to study and rarely went home.
It turns out he disgraced himself, had been cut off, and exiled to college in Hawai’i. Apparently, now that he was close to graduation, his family was talking to him again… and it had revealed how different he was when he was in contact with them.
How quick he was to jump when his mom called.
And how much she disliked me.
