Chapter 154

Emma’s POV

Two days, with Kev and Chase the house wasn’t what I thought it would be. Chase was barely available, and when he was, he made sure he was extremely busy. Kevin, too, worked in the room Patty had arranged for him, so they had no reasons to cross paths except dinner time.

I had an extensive talk with my mom about Kevin. She still really wasn’t feeling him, but she was glad I’d moved on from Chase, it was mixed emotions for her.

“This is so good, Mr. Norman.” He smiled at the wine Chase’s dad asked Patty to get.

“This old man knows good things when he sees one.” He looked glaringly at my mom, but she avoided his eyes.

The air between them was still a little weird, but they had to put up a show, for the rest of us at least, who had bigger things going on. I’d spent two days feeling like shit for not forcing Casey to come along with me instead of Kevin. In my defense, he said he wanted to meet my mom and properly apologize for all that’d h