Page 37 of Meet Cute Reboot
Luke looks at me. “She’s not normally like this.”
He hurries over to his mom, turns her away from the cabinets, and takes her glass. After pouring her drink into the sink, he refills the glass with water. “Here,” he says handing it to her. She chugs it, oblivious to the water spilling onto her cheeks and down her dress.
“Um... I’m going to go?” I point to the back door.
“No. Stay,” Cecelia pleads. “I need girl talk. Luke won’t understand.”
“I understand you are not sleeping with Dad, under any circumstances,” Luke says sternly. “That’s not happening.”
“You don’t get to decide,” Cecelia says.
“Yes, I do. You can’t stand Dad.”
“I can’t, but he offered to give me the beach house in Cancun if I meet him down there next week.”
“You said you don’t have a price.”
“Everyone has a price.”
“Have you heard of a booty call?” Luke asks.
“I think I should leave,” I say, this time a little louder.
Cecelia looks at me beneath hooded lids. “I need your advice, Cassie. You and I are kindred spirits.”
“We are?” I inch toward the back door.
“We’ve both loved men who cheated on us.”
“Mother, stop. You’re drunk.”
“I’m not drunk. I’m tipsy. And I know what a booty call is.”
“If you go to Cancun, that’s a booty call. You’re seriously considering having a booty call. With Dad.”
“First of all, you have no room to talk. Secondly, a house on the ocean, Luke. We could go whenever we wanted. Even the seafood smells better in the tropics.”
“I can buy you an ocean house,” Luke says.
“What would you do, Cassie? Would you answer Luke’s booty call if he offered you a house in Cancun?”
I shake my head.
Cecelia tucks her chin and peers at me. “One night of sex for a house on a beach?”
“No. I don’t think I would.”
“I would never ask her to,” Luke says.
Cecelia throws up her hands. “You two are no help.” She slumps onto the island. Luke grabs her before she slides to the floor.
“You need to lay down,” he says.
“Will you read me a bedtime story?” Cecelia slurs.
I cover a grin with my hand. Luke catches me. “This isn’t funny.”
He’s right. This isn’t funny. I’m learning too much about Cecelia’s sex life and Luke’s feelings for me. So why am I still smiling?