Chapter Nine
Patton
“Okay, Alexa,” I coached her as we took an Uber from the small airport nearest her parent’s home in the Houston area, “we’re in love. We’ve been dating seriously for the last three months, but we’ve been seeing each other since shortly after you came to Austin. It’s important that we both stick to that timeframe or your parents will know something’s not right.”
“I know.” She wrung her hands in her lap, clearly nervous. “This is just going to be so awkward, Patton.”
That was the one thing it definitely could not be. “You have to pretend that it’s all true or your mother will see through us, and we can’t have that.” Luciano would be at his parents’ home as well, to make sure they knew that he was in favor of our marriage. “You know, your brother is having to lie too.
