Loved (Professor Hunter Book 3) by Ivy Smoak

Author:Ivy Smoak [Smoak, Ivy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Loft Troll Ink
Published: 2024-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Friday

"What's Rob like?" Penny asked as I led her out of her dorm room.

What was the best way to describe my brother? "He's...fun."

"You mean like funny?"

"No, I wouldn't say funny.” He’d been hilarious when we were kids. But after I’d married Isabella his jokes had become more annoying than funny. “He likes to have a good time. I invited him to stay with me when I didn't have you.” And because he had nowhere else to go. “He's good at distracting me." I stared down at her as we walked outside. I didn’t like talking about the time we weren’t together. Going on a break with her had been a terrible mistake.

Penny laughed, but there was something else in her eyes. She looked…sad. She was probably remembering our time apart too. She hadn’t fared much better than me.

She cleared her throat. "Is he like you at all?"

"Like me? He looks a little like me, I guess."

"Yeah, I've seen his picture. I mean, is he like you personality wise?"

Huh. That was a good question. I opened up the car door for her.

She climbed in and I walked over to the driver’s side.

Was Rob like me? Even a little? Rob was fun and carefree and always smiling. He traveled all the time. He hadn’t accomplished much of anything since graduating college. “No,” I said as I climbed into the car and buckled my seatbelt. "He's not really like me at all. He's kind of the opposite of me." But I guess I did smile more now. Because of her.

"What do you mean?"

"He's not independent."

"What does that mean exactly?"

"He lives off my parents' money. He's never held a job for more than a few weeks." I pulled out of the parking lot.

"Oh. So is he close with your parents?"

Closer than I am, that’s for sure. "It's funny. I felt like I was the only one of my siblings who ever listened to them. And they like me the least."

"I'm sure that isn't true."

No, it was true. My parents hated me for selling my company. For leaving Isabella. For living my life the way I wanted. Yet, Jen and Rob could do whatever they wanted and my parents didn’t say a word.

"Do your parents know about me?” Penny asked. “Do they know about your divorce?"

"They know I filed for divorce. I told them about it before I did it. They tried to talk me out of it." My mother thought I was an idiot. Her exact words. And I thought she was an over-botoxed bitch. I was pretty sure I’d said those exact words to her face.

"And what about me?"

"I haven't talked to them since I left New York."

"They haven't tried to talk to you at all? That was almost a year ago."

I glanced at her for a second before turning my attention back to the road. "I didn't say that." My mother had reached out. A few times. She’d left voicemails about how divorcing Isabella would be the biggest mistake of my life.

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