Victoria grew quiet for a moment. Then she asked the last question her father wanted to hear. "By the way, what did Kayla whisper to you last night?"
Max froze for a split second, but Victoria caught it. "Nothing important," he said cryptically. "Just her usual teasing. You know how she is."
"Yeah, I do. And I know she usually flirts with you out loud so everyone can hear. It's not like her to shut me and Teri out like that."
"It was nothing, really," he said, eager to change the subject.
"If you say so," his daughter said, obviously unsatisfied with his answer.
Max ducked out before Victoria could bring up anything else he didn't want to talk about. He went up to his room and pulled on a pair of shorts without a shirt, and then he went back down to his office to work for a while. He
