I felt as if I was in a tennis match as my eyes darted from one of them to the other. It was clear that Aunt Veronica was happy and Olivia was far from it as she started to turn redder and clenched her fist. I held on to her hand and said, “Aunt Veronica, it was nice meeting you. I was planning on meeting the pair of you. But we have to go to the office now.”
Before Olivia kills you!
“Oh,” she sighed. “That’s such a shame. There’s a show that I know that you’ll like.”
There was a sneaky smile on my face, because I kind of suspected I knew exactly what she was going to say.
“Billionaires. You would love it.”
“It’s on Netflix right?”
“It is,” her cheeks turned red and she looked as if she was going to spill the cup she was holding as I said, “That sounds great. Friday night. I’ll come over. You, me and Billionaires. Is that a date?”
She spilled whatever she was drinking and then she rushed over and tried to grab me. At first I thought that she was trying to give me a hug, but then I realized that she was just trying to feel my body.
Olivia peeled her off me.
“Come on, the man’s perfectly shaped. Women my age only get to watc
h bodies like that on screen.”
I nodded, “I’m sure you do.”
Then smiled. “It’s really nice to finally meet the man that’s put a smile on my niece’s face.”
I bowed to her and thought about what she’d just said; this was all news to me. I wasn’t the kind of man that went to meet someone’s parents, let alone make a regular arrangement to watch Billionaires with them on a Friday night.
***
“Were you really going to come and meet her?”
I nodded, “I want to know everything about you. Not just in the bedroom. I want to try and be part of your life.”
“Wow.” Olivia smiled as she kissed me on the lips.
Not only did I surprise her, but I kind of surprised myself too. I grabbed my shirt. I needed to go home and shower before I got to the office and I had no intention of doing either of those things alone.
Chapter Fourteen
Ross
“Are we really doing this?” Craig asked me once again as he stood at the bar.
“You need to stop asking me that. Olivia’s outside and she’ll hear you.”
“I know, but you don’t do dates.”
I laughed about his statement, because for the last couple of weeks there’d been a lot of things that I don’t do.
“I don’t watch Billionaires either,” I lied as I thought about my regular Friday night meeting with Aunt Veronica, watching the damn show. Shit, it was so fucking good, but I wouldn’t tell Craig that. He was my best friend, not my mom. I didn’t need to tell him everything!
“What, the show? Love it. The guy kind of reminds me of you,” he sighed. “The next thing I know you’ll be coming to the Fifty Shades events with me.”
We both looked at each other and went into fits of laughter. Olivia walked in, “What are you guys laughing about?”
I wave. “Oh nothing. Are you ready?”
She nodded “What about Amelia?”