Lily rests her head back against the cushion before turning to look at me. “So, Sebastian.”
I feel like squirming where I sit with her looking at me in the all-knowing way. “What do you want to know?”
She smirks. “Carla. I want to know everything. He’s my brother-in-law and a fine specimen and seeing as though I’m not letting Michael between my legs, I need second hand information and you’re the only one here.”
God, I’m glad I’d already finished my coffee because it probably would have choked me to death with Lily’s words.
“I thought you said Michael wouldn’t have sex with you.” Are we really having this conversation? Unreal.
“He won’t put his cock in me.” My eyes widen at her bluntness, which considering the topic of conversation I should have been prepared for. “But he keeps trying to put his mouth on me.” She grins. “I told him if he refused to use his cock, then my legs and mouth were staying closed.”
I listen to her going on about her sex life and then start laughing. In fact, I’m laughing so much, tears are leaking out from the corners of my eyes.
There’s no way she’s going to let me off the hook and as she knows there is something between us anyway I guess I won’t be given much away.
“Will you keep it to yourself for now, until we can tell Pippa?”
“I can do that. So spill.”
She’s infectious. “I’ve never been with Ramon in the way we’ve let everyone believe. Something happened and I agreed to pretend to be his girlfriend, not expecting to fall for his brother,” I lean back against the sofa, closing my eyes, “but I did. I’m in love with Sebastian and I think I have been since we first met at your wedding.”
I turn my head to look at Lily. “We’ve been together these past three days. Today is the first day Sebastian has gone into the office since he showed up at my door.” I offer a slight smile. “He didn’t want to leave me, but he had a meeting he couldn’t get out of.”
After a few minutes Lily breaks the silence. “I noticed his attraction to you at my wedding. He couldn’t take his eyes from you. I’ve also noticed him watching you when he thinks no one is looking. In the time I’ve known him, he’s never been like that before.” Lily sighs. “I’ll be honest and say I was worried at first because I thought you were his brother’s girl, but as I watched you both the attraction between you was electric, whereas with Ramon you always just acted as friends. So it’s a relief to know there isn’t going to be any conflict within the family.”
“No conflict, although it was difficult and upsetting wanting to be with him, but not wanting to break my promise to Ramon. It was more so for Sebastian because he thought I was sleeping with his brother. At least we’re together now.”
“Whose together now?” Lucien asks striding into the room and straight to Lily, placing a kiss to her cheek. “You okay?”
“I’m fine Lucien. I thought you were picking Sabrina up on your way here.” Lily pushes him to one side and then spots her friend hovering in the doorway.
Something’s going on here and I think that something is Sabrina and Lucien. Sabrina sure as hell doesn’t look too happy with Lucien fawning all over Lily, which the rest of the family is used to. Even Michael’s accepted his brother’s coddling of his wife. Lucien on more than one occasion has spoken out calling her his sister, but I guess Sabrina not being around hasn’t helped with her perception of their relationship.
Lucien sits opposite us and glares daggers, for want of a better word, at Sabrina until she straightens up, and joins us by sitting as far away from Lucien as she can without being rude, which gets a raised eyebrow from him.
Sabrina completely ignores him and glances between Lily and myself, but stays silent.
“How are you settling back into life in the states?” I ask wanting to break the tension that arrived with them.
“Just fine. I love the cabin Michael found me to rent, and the peace and quiet of where it is. The weather is an added bonus after raining for weeks before I left London. Anyway, enough about me, Lily, how are you feeling?”
I’m beginning to feel slightly uncomfortable with tension between Sabrina and Lucien and I so wish I could be a fly on the wall when they’re alone…then again, maybe not as it’d be an explosive encounter.
“I feel like an oversized elephant and Michael refuses to do anything to try and set my labor off.”
Trying not to laugh at the freaked out look on Lucien’s face is easier said than done. It takes him a minute to school his feature before he asks. “How? Dare I ask?”
I’m unable to control the snicker, which burst from between my lips. “You really shouldn’t have asked that, Lucien.”
He still looks clueless, but he won’t for long.
“A man’s sperm can trigger labor when the due date is close and Michael refuses to, well you know, inside me.” Lily grins across at Lucien who looks damn uncomfortable now. “Lucien, are you feeling okay?”