Twenty minutes later, Austin appeared in the kitchen. Jake and Sherry both had cups of coffee and Georgia was playing with a water bottle on the table.
"Hey, you guys… sorry about that." Austin Locke wasn't really one for apologies, and while he knew that he could not be in trouble, since he was a legal adult now, he could apologize for getting caught in the middle, or, well, he should say beginning of a s****l tryst with Cassie Kaideen. In fact, it was more than a tryst, but he wasn't quite ready to accept forever and always. He was a lot like his father in that sense. Oblivious, Austin grabbed a muffin from a basket on the table. He bit into it and looked over at his mother who was boring nails into his body with her eyes.
"What?" He said around a mouthful of muffin. Then he groaned, "
