Zea comes to stand beside me. “You’re trying. I know you are.”
“I am.”
“Just don’t make the whole dream for her before she gets to say if she wants it.”
I turn my head toward her. “You got that from a movie?”
“No. I’m just brilliant.”
I can’t hold back my laugh.
She smiles, then nudges my arm. “At least ask her before you do anything big.”
“I said I’m not signing anything today.”
“Todayis doing a lot of work in that sentence.”
I look down at my phone at the realtor’s message asking if I want to move forward with an application. My thumb hovers over the screen.
Zea leans over. “Don’t you do it.”
“I’m not.”
“You look like you are.”
“I’m thinking.”
“That’s dangerous.”
I put my phone in my pocket before I can respond. “Come on. Let’s go look at one more place.”
“One more place Lily did not ask for?”
“One more place I’m just looking at.”
She gives me a look. “Mmhmm.”
I hold the door open for her, and she walks out first, still shaking her head.
“What?” I ask.
“You’re lucky I’m here.”
I follow her out and lock the door behind us.
She’s right.
Chapter 32 Lily
“I’m trying to be supportive,” Porsche says, leaning closer to the camera, “but I need you to understand that going to the Bahamas with an NBA player and glowing in every picture is suspicious behavior.”
Charisse laughs, and I roll my eyes, but I can’t even pretend to be annoyed. I’ve been waiting all day to talk to them, and now that their faces are on my screen, I feel lighter already.
“I wasn’t glowing.”
“You were absolutely glowing,” Charisse says.
“I took a week off. That’s all.”
