Dirty Delilah(18)
Usually hearing their lighthearted gossip was enough to comfort her when she was away from home, but now it just made her want to cry again. Fortunately, her well had run dry at around three o’clock in the morning.
“So when are you going to answer our questions?” Drew sniffed.
“Yeah,” her youngest sister laughed. “Spill it, woman. Inquiring minds and all.”
Had she missed something? “What questions?”
Drew made a tsking sound. “Is Sebastian Kosta as attractive as he was last year? Is he willing to model for DD4 ads in exchange for selling him the garage? And has he fallen in love with you yet?”
“He’s still very attractive. I don’t think so and I only met him for five minutes, so probably not.”
“Do you hear that, Drew?”
“I do, Darcy.”
“What?” Delilah demanded. “What do you hear? I didn’t say anything.”
“Exactly,” Drew responded. “You haven’t said a single word about him.”
“Sebastian? I just told you he was still attractive. When I meet him for breakfast, I can take a picture as evidence if you like.”
“Please do. But that isn’t who we’re talking about. You haven’t said a word about Asa Wilder, which is weird since you used to talk about him all the time and he’s also trying to buy the garage.” Darcy sounded far too perky. Delilah wasn’t in the mood for perky.
“He’s still attractive too.” And irresistible. And frustrating. “Happy now?”
“Hon?” Drew had stopped teasing. “What’s going on?”
“Honestly? I don’t know.” She sighed. “I don’t know why either one of them wants to buy us out at this point. I don’t know why I’m here.”
I’m not sure I’ll be able to get over Asa again.
“You still have feelings for him.” Darcy wasn’t asking a question. “And something definitely happened.”
Delilah huffed out a frustrated breath. “Stop pretending you’re a witch, Darcy. You don’t have psychic powers.”
“I don’t need them with you.”
“Fine. You want to know? We had a drink, went for a ride on his bike, had crazy sex and then fought about…I’m not sure what that was about.”
“What?!”
“Del, you’ve only been there for one day!”
She shook her head, making the turn that led to Sebastian’s road. “And this is why I don’t tell you things.”
It sounded like Drew was banging her forehead against the phone before she spoke. “You were getting it out of your system. The crush. His rejection. It was closure…right?”
“I don’t think so. I did at first, but no.”
Now it was Darcy’s turn to sigh. “Why did you fight? Was the sex bad?”
“I think you’re too young to hear about the kind of sex we had.”
“Oh my.”
“Yes.” She turned in the driveway she was directed to and swore. “Holy shit.”
“What?” The sisters echoed.
“His house is ridiculous. It’s an entire apartment building. Five families, at least, could live inside this thing. What does he want with Dad’s dinky shop?”
Darcy chuckled in relief. “Well he’s a Kosta. They don’t do anything halfway.”
“Apparently not.” Delilah parked and leaned her head back. “I’m okay. Really. But I should go get this breakfast over with.”
Drew whistled. “Now I know you’re not okay. You don’t ‘get over with’ a breakfast being made for you in a garish mansion by a hunky Greek millionaire with a brilliant mind and a charming personality. You relish and enjoy it.”
“Then I should hurry up and go start with the relishing.”
“Good.”
“Fine.”
“Okay.”
Delilah hung up and made a face at the phone. She really shouldn’t have told them. They weren’t going to leave it alone.
She walked up to the large white house, thinking it glimmered the same way his shop did. And then she thought about breaking into that shop. About the note Sebastian would find near his bike when he arrived.
About Asa.
Stop it. Relish. Enjoy. Business and crepes!
She obviously wasn’t listening.
When the door opened she took a breath, surprised that she’d forgotten the impact his looks had had on her yesterday. He stood there in a white, short-sleeved shirt and grey tailored pants, looking like a prince from a fairytale. A muscular, toffee-skinned prince with dark chocolate eyes. Edible. He was a beautiful man. So beautiful she’d put him in the threesome fantasy Asa had spun for her last night.