And boy, did it feel strange to say that out loud.
Her sister blinked again before a barrage of questions were thrown Alex’s way.
“Who? And since when? Why didn’t you say anything before now?”
“Okay, wow.” Alex lifted a palm in the air. “That was a whole lot all at once.”
“Stop deflecting.”
“I’m not deflecting, but you have to at least give me a chance to answer one question before spewing out like seventeen more.”
“It was three, and you’re stalling.”
Damn. She sometimes forgot how brilliant her little sister was.
“To answer your second question, it’s new. Which also answers question number three.”
“How new are we talking?”
Going with Colt’s advice on sticking as close to thetruth as possible, Alex answered with a mostly truthful, “A couple of weeks.”
“Two weeks?” Avery frowned. “You were in California two weeks ago. Where did you and this mystery man meet? Which reminds me, you still haven’t answered question number one.”
“We met here in Charlotte.” Truth.“He lives here, but he’s gone a lot for work.” Another truth.
“And you’ve been seeing him for two weeks?”
“Give or take.” Alex shrugged as she gave her sister a partial truth. “He’s taking me out to dinner tonight, in fact.”
Plans that had been made this morning, right before Colt had left her apartment.
Avery paused, seemingly processing the information as she shuffled her stance. “This conversation isn’t over by any means, but it’s going to have to wait.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing. I just really have to pee.”
Alex chuckled, pointing toward the hallway at the back. “Help yourself. You know the way.”
Without hesitation, Avery spun on her heels and began hurrying across the gallery’s tiled floor.
“Hey!” Alex called after her. “I thought that wasn’t supposed to start until you were carrying a basketball around in your belly.”
“Tell that to my bladder!”
She laughed again, watching her baby sister disappear into the hallway’s shadowed entrance.
If you wait too long to tell her about Colt, she’s going to end up hearing it from Garrett.
In a nervous move, she pulled herbottom lip between her teeth and tried coming up with the best way to drop the news.
Hey, sis. So you know your brother-in-law, right? The one I’m always saying I’d like to choke out with my bare hands? The thing is, he and I had sex. Really, really good sex. Twice, in fact. First, in California and again last night, when he stopped by my apartment. And oh, yeah. By the way, we’re a couple now, too.
Alex was still standing there, mulling through different ideas when the gallery’s door opened and the subject of her thoughts suddenly appeared.
“Hey, you.” Colt sent her a panty-dropping smile as he made his way over to her.
He was dressed in dark gray suit pants and a light blue shirt but no tie. The collared button-down made his gorgeous eyes pop, and the twin dimples in his cheeks deepened when he smiled. His shirt stretched perfectly across his broad shoulders and biceps, and those pants fell over a set of thighs she knew intimately well.
