“She is but–”
“Let me see her!”
I don’t know why she’s yelling, but I don’t turn the phone to Sage. “Mom, she’s busy–”
“Liam.” She gives me a pointed look, and I glance up at Sage, who's smiling shyly.
“You told your mom about me?” She whispers and I feel my face heat. Her jaw slightly drops and I give her my back. “You just blushed!” She pokes my back before turning to get in front of me but I turn again.
“I just had the best idea!” Mom shouts again. “Bring her over. I can cook, and she can meet everyone. We’re playing music and I’m going to perform soon, hurry!”
It’s a talent show over there, and by performing, I’m sure she means she's just going to play the piano, but she smiles at melike she’s about to go on a Broadway show, so I tell her I’ll be there.
She lets me end the call, and when I look over at Sage, she has a beautiful smile on her face. “When you’d tell her about me?” She clearly bites back a smile, and I shake my head at her with a smile of my own.
“Officially, when I was trying to figure out how to ask you to be my girlfriend. But she had an idea of you when I brought the cats to see her.” It was my annoying friends who saw Sage’s post about the girlfriend proposal, but I naturally asked my mom what she thought, and she had the idea to give her peonies. “Do you want to come with me to see her?”
Her eyes light up, and I think I have my answer. “Are you sure?”
I’m not, but my mom is having a good day, which may not last long, and I want Sage to meet her eventually, so I give her a nod and grab her hand.
Just as she opens the door, Sire walks out of the room across from us. He looks between us before walking over.
“My bad about earlier. I should've just left you alone after you said you didn’t celebrate New Year's.”
His apology throws me off, but when I glance over his shoulder, I see that his girlfriend is watching us.
“You’d jump out of a window if she said so, huh?”
He glances over his shoulder and Vidia gives him a bright smile as she turns her head to the side and I’d be a liar if I said she wasn’t beautiful.
“Possibly… Yes.” He keeps his eyes on her, and Sage stifles a laugh from beside us, and every last one of my cells reacts to the sight of Sage’s smile.
“I really am sorry for your loss, Walker.”
I look back over at him, and his sincerity is hard to believe, but I do. “It’s fine, thanks for the invite.” I force out before walkingpast him with Sage who is smiling too big for such a small gesture but I know she desperately wants us to get along.
I thank Vidia for the food before we say goodbye to the rest of Sage's family. I'm glad this dinner went well because it was important to Sage.
Chapter Forty-Four
Sage
“If she starts flipping outabout something, you could leave the room and let the nurses and me handle it.”
“Okay.” I nod, more to myself, and Liam’s face is really hard to read as he focuses on the beautiful house in front of us. “Are you sure you’re good with this?”
When we had dinner with my brothers in Italy, they were asking questions about Liam that I couldn’t answer, and while some were absolutely absurd and Sire was just being over-protective, I couldn’t even answer anything about his family.
I told Liam that bothered me since I’m family-oriented, and he told me he’d tell me about his family, but as I’m about to meet his mom, I’m very nervous, and it has nothing to do with the fact that she has Alzheimer’s but because I’m scared she won’t like me.
“Areyougood with this?”
I glance over at Liam, and helaughsat me. “What is funny?”
“You’re nervous about meeting my mom?” He laughs harder and I cross my arms at him.
“Oh, I want to see you meet my momanddad because they remember what you did to their son and are not as forgiving as their children.”
