Page 68 of Keep On Loving You
“See, what?” Andy looked between them, confusion on his face. “What are you two talking about?”
Kat glared at her friend before answering Andy. “Annie is just being?—”
“Annie is trying to save your ass,” her friend interrupted, the glee gone from her voice now.
Again, Andy shook his head, but before Kat could try to explain, Annie jumped in.
“I’m not trying to get involved with whatever is going on between the two of you, but I do think it’s fair to tell you both that you’re terrible liars and if you don’t want anyone else figuring out what is going on here,” Annie waved a finger between the two of them, “I strongly suggest that you sort out how to fix your facial expressions when you’re around each other.”
Andy looked at Kat with raised eyebrows.
“Yes,” Annie continued. “Obviously I know. And so will everyone else if you don’t stop looking at her like you can’t wait to strip her clothes off and do dirty things to her.”
“Annie!”
Kat’s face flamed with embarrassment, but Andy laughed.
He scrubbed a hand over his own face and shook his head. “Well, you’re not wrong,” he said, causing Kat’s blush to intensify. “But you do have a point.” Then to Kat, he said, “She has a point. Maybe we need to be a little more discreet?”
“Well, it looks like you’re both going to have the opportunity to practice that discretion right now.” Annie waved at someone over Kat’s shoulder. “Hey, guys.” She held out her arm and a moment later, Kat’s big brother Chase joined them, kissing Annie by way of a greeting.
“What are you all doing here?” Craig asked, as he too joined the group. “And you have the baby.” He knelt and tickled Poppy until she giggled.
“We’re giving Charli a break,” Kat said. “She had a huge shipment come in, and it turns out we’re more help with the baby than we are with the flowers.”
Andy chuckled, but cognizant of what Annie had just said about practicing discretion, Kat made a point not to look at him.
“Don’t tell me you’re helping babysit, too?” Chase asked Andy.
“I can’t take any credit for helping out,” Andy said. “I was actually just with Jess.”
A shot of completely unreasonable jealousy shot through Kat at the mention of the other woman, despite the fact that she knew nothing was going on with her and Andy. A moment later, the feeling of jealousy was replaced completely with a brand-new emotion when Andy said, “I’m putting in an offer on the apartment over the kitchen shop.”
“What?”
Annie elbowed her sharply in the ribs.
Kat worked to keep her expression as neutral as possible. “You’re buying an apartment?”
“He can’t live in your tiny place forever,” Craig said with a laugh.
“It looks like it will be a little bit longer though.”
Kat still refused to look at Andy, despite the fact that he was clearly speaking directly to her.
“I mean, my offer still needs to get accepted. But there’s a renter in there, so I have to give two months’ notice.”
Two months.
The thought of him moving out at all made her want to cry, but there was no way she could let that happen. Not now. Not in front of her brothers.
“What?” Kat shrugged and rolled her eyes. “I have to put up with you for two more months?”
She risked a glance at him then but quickly looked away when she saw the longing in his eyes.
“You can always move in with us,” Chase said. “We have lots of room at the big house, and I’m sure Kat would like to have a little bit of space with everything that she’s got going on right now.”
Kat’s mouth fell open as she turned to stare at her brother and her friend. Annie gave her a look, and Kat quickly shut her mouth and busied herself with the baby, who’d thrown a toy out of her stroller.
