Living the Dream by Lyla Payne

Author:Lyla Payne [Payne, Lyla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Audra

The visit with Sebastian and his mother has been on my mind for the past couple of days. We haven’t seen each other again—he’s claiming that he has a big paper coming up, and to be honest, I could use some study time myself—since that day. The fact ramps up my insecurities ever so slightly, but the idea that the sex hadn’t been as good for him as it had for me doesn’t seem likely. We’d both enjoyed it, no doubt in my mind, and after the initial getting-to-know-you phase, we’d had chemistry that surprised even me.

I haven’t told Blair or anyone else about meeting his mother. Sebastian made it obvious that he wished I hadn’t been let in on the secret and anyway it’s not mine to share. It does make me think, though. About why he wants to date a girl like me, about why he would lie about working for that campaign and have such obviously conflicted feelings about his mother.

My heart hurts when all of the puzzle pieces start to assemble in my head. I’m still not clear on why he doesn’t just ask his father for more money if his mother needs it, but Sebastian must have a reason for needing a career all of a sudden.

He also has his reasons for needing to rehabilitate his image with a girlfriend like me—one who people like and would never suspect of participating in anything shady.

The two things have to go together, I’m just not 100 percent sure why or how they line up.

We’re hanging out at the Kappa house in a few minutes and I’m hoping he’ll confide the details about his mother’s illness. I didn’t want to ask. I don’t want to be that girl, the one who pesters her guy, especially since I’m not even really his girlfriend, but it’s obvious he needs to talk to someone before his anger boils over like a volcanic explosion that ruins everything he’s working for.

I don’t know when easily explainable curiosity turned into me actually wanting to be that person for deeper reasons—like he makes my heart hurt with understanding—but somewhere along the way it has.

My phone dings with a text message. It’s Sebastian letting me know he’s outside, so I fly down the stairs to the foyer, passing three of my sisters on my way to push open the front door.

My stomach has a seizure at the sight of Sebastian on the porch, the sun glinting off his perfect blonde hair. As usual, he’s too buttoned up for an afternoon at the house helping me with election prep—his gray pinstriped pants are pressed and paired with a purple button-down that’s just the perfect shade—but his attention to detail and grooming are starting to grow on me.

There’s something throwback about it. Classic. Like dating Cary Grant.

“Hey.”

He nods, giving me a half smile that’s unlike him. As though he’s not sure or didn’t think through whether he would smile when I opened the door. “Hello.”

“You look nice.”

“So do you.

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