“You’re Travis Titus! Oh my word! Oh my word! Look at them both!” If Sandy didn’t watch it, she was going to have a heart attack.
Just then her husband came around the corner, his pudgy stomach all the more evident next to Travis’s perfect physique. “Hey, baby.” He tried to kiss her on the cheek, but Sandy pushed him away.
Kacey pressed her lips together to keep from laughing.
“Hey, Kace, where you going? Travis, what are you doing here?” Jake tried to act happy. Kacey could tell because his lips were twitching like he wanted to scowl and then punch his brother in the face.
“Grandma wanted me to take Kacey to the park, something about the wedding or something.”
Well, that was a lie. On both accounts, but Kacey wasn’t going to argue.
“Oh, well, um, I guess I’ll go too.”
“No!” The girls all but yelled. “Jakey, stay with us.” A girl came up to his side and pouted. “She’ll be fine. We haven’t seen you in years!” She rolled her eyes.
Kacey wanted to pull her hair out.
Jake opened his mouth to speak, but another girl looped her arm with his. “Please Jake, you still haven’t told us about your trip to Africa to help the nomads.”
Seriously? They were buying this? Really? Kacey wanted to scream. He chuckled and nodded his head. “Sure, I’ll stay, but only for a little bit.” His eyes turned back to Kacey. “I hate to be away from my love for too long.”
Kacey wondered if slapping him or choking him would be more satisfying.
Jake leaned in and kissed her cheek. “See you soon.”
“Yup.” Kacey gave him a lame side hug and attached herself to Travis’s person like a leech.
Once they were outside she mumbled, “I’m still mad, but thank you.”
“Of course.” He put on his sunglasses.
“And I didn’t need saving.”
“I know.”
“Okay, I just want you to know that I was handling things fine and—”
“Kace, I know. Now, do you want to go have fun or sit here and argue?”
“Fun,” she mumbled.
He laughed. “Right. Well, let’s see what I can come up with.”
Chapter Seventeen
Jake watched their disappearing forms. Well, actually he watched Kacey’s. His brother could go to hell for all he cared.
What was he doing here anyway? It wasn’t his high school reunion.
Just as he was ready to go after them, a hot blonde tugged at his shirt and smiled up at him as if to change his mind. “Are the rumors true, then?”
“Rumors?” He gave her a dazzling smile.
“That girls cry when you leave them in bed because they want you so badly.” She was trying to be sexy, but honestly the minute she said cry and bed together, he lost all his sexual appetite in one giant rush.
Kacey.
God, he was stupid.