No Holding Back by Kate Evangelista

Author:Kate Evangelista
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Sixteen

JUST AS NATHAN finished ordering his drink from the sinfully handsome bartender at the octagonal nipa hut bar without walls on one of the famous black beaches of Santorini a couple of days later, his cell phone rang, playing “Love Somebody,” his theme song for his cousin’s current state of lovey-dovey bliss. It was a video call.

Caleb’s handsome face blinked into view a second after Nathan swiped right.

“You cut your hair,” Nathan said, noticing the shorter strands immediately.

His cousin combed his fingers through, causing the lush locks to tumble over his forehead. “Do you like it?”

“I suggested it,” someone said from the background. Then the phone’s camera swung around to reveal the mischievously smiling face of Diana Alexander, aka Didi and the apple of Caleb’s eye.

“It’s a little too short for my taste,” Nathan teased.

“And that’s exactly why I made him do it. Never mind that he looks delicious. I knew it would annoy the hell out of you,” she teased back with a comical wink.

“I can’t exactly think of my cousin as delicious, now can I? We’re not in Utah.”

“Go back to your painting, D,” Caleb said. “And stop talking about me like I’m not here. I thought we already discussed this. I’m not food.”

“You’re definitely my main course, babe.” Didi kissed his cheek so hard Nathan could actually hear the mwah. Then to him she said, “Ciao,” as the camera swung back around to feature Caleb’s smiling face.

“So,” he said, lengthening the single-syllable word and turning it into a question. “How’s my European adventure going?”

“I’d say the statute of limitations on that ran out the moment you turned back around to sweep your girlfriend off her feet,” Nathan said, a chuckle bubbling up from his chest.

“And sweep me off my feet he did,” Didi said from somewhere. Nathan assumed she was behind her easel, brush and palette already in hand.

A part of him envied what Caleb and Didi had.

“Did you tell him yet?” came her follow-up question.

His cheeks automatically flushed; then just as quickly all the heat receded. Of course she knew. “Well, no.”

Blurting it out at a concert didn’t count.

“If you don’t tell him, you’re forever stuck in this limbo of nothingness. If he rejects you, then you have a chance at moving on,” Caleb said, genuine concern in his blue eyes.

“I honestly don’t think I can move on.”

“I’m positive Preston feels the same way,” Didi chimed in.

“What?” Nathan slapped the bar with his free hand. “How can you be so sure?”

“It’s my superpower,” she declared.

Caleb threw his head back and laughed.

Okay, this conversation had gotten out of hand. Nathan needed to divert their attention before he said more than he had been prepared to say. There was an idea he had been toying with since Rome. With the amount of work still left ahead of him, he needed help. And since Didi had already declared herself a superhero of sorts …

“Hey, Caleb, can you put Didi back on for just a sec?”

“Sick of me already?” Caleb asked back, sobering.

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