Eventually Yours

✽ 42

~Aubree~

“What the actual hell do you mean you bugged the house?” Leslie asked when we pulled onto the freeway.

“I'm investigating.”

“Who?”

“Beck and his sister.”

They're definitely hiding something.

“Why?”

I rolled my head to the side to look at him.

“They're being suspicious.”

He furrowed his brows.

“Suspicious? How?”

“They're sneaking and whispering around. When they see me coming, they either change the topic of whatever it was they were whispering about or start making ridiculous excuses to rid themselves of me” I explained. “Katie-Ann bluntly says to my face that she doesn't wanna talk to me so.”

“I thought you liked blunt people.”

“I don't like the human being so I don't like anything she does.”

Leslie laughed.

“All siblings whisper and sneak around, Aubree. You know that. And changing the topic? You and your sister are pros in doing that.”

I chuckled.

“We don't change the topic, Les. We change the language.”

“To that made-up language,” he scoffed.

“Mandarin Chinese is not a made-up language” I chuckled.

“Whatever. I didn't even know you knew how to fix tiny pinhole microphones and cameras.”

“I don't. I called in a favor.”

He slowed the car down to a stop and looked at me for further explanation.

“Remember when our brother used to work for the CIA?”

“Yes. And I don't know why you'd want to stop working for the CIA” he sighed.

“It's not all cool weapons, fast cars, and sunglasses, okay? Hollywood is so deceptive” I shook my head. “He still does Sunday brunch with some of his closest friends from there whenever they're not kicking people's doors open. I called one of his friends... remember his best man at his wedding? Yeah him.”

“How does he even owe you a favor?” Leslie laughed.

“Remember twelve years ago... when everyone I knew was so desperately trying to find me a man?”

“Medical school. How could I forget?” he chuckled. “And we were doing that because you still had the hots for your sister's husband... not that everyone else knew.”

“Have, Leslie” I corrected. “I slept with him. If I didn't give in to the hots, we wouldn't be here right now.”

“True.”

“Breanna signed me up on a dating site and I got paired with...”

"The CIA guy?!” Leslie interrupted. “You let a CIA guy go, Aubree? I can not believe you.”

“I didn't get paired with the CIA guy. I got paired with Riccardo.”

“I thought you said you met at a wedding.”

“We did.”