“Yes: Dan. He’s one of the aides of some big-shot Senator,” Jade answered, unable to hide her displeasure.

“Not Max?” Tina asked in surprise.

Now Kit was really confused. So Rian is straight? And apparently a player?

“They broke up about a month and a half-ago. Rian wouldn’t say much about it … only that they’d grown apart. But, Max came by to visit yesterday, apparently still heartbroken,” Jade started to explain.

She bent over to pick up one of Angelica’s plush toys that had fallen to the floor.

“And she got together with this Dan dude soon after?” Kit asked.

Again, Jade couldn’t hide a grimace after she sat up and gave Angelica the toy.

“They started dating steadily about three weeks ago,” she said with a sigh, and started to sip on the mocha latte that the waiter brought over.

“I’m not surprised she found someone so quickly,” Tina said, and then bit her lip when another annoyed look crossed her cousin’s face.

“Why?” Kit asked, really curious now about the dynamics of the relationship between Jade and this mysterious woman. “Apart from her smarts, apparently …”

“Umm …” Tina started to answer, hesitatingly, as she looked over at Jade, who was growing more tense, but was trying to keep her anxiety hidden.

“What? Must be beautiful?” Kit asked Tina.

“Gorgeous,” Jade answered with another sigh before Tina could say anything.

“Unforgettable. She could easily work as a model, Kit,” Tina added, unable to help a tease from creeping into her voice as she gave her increasingly morose cousin a small smile. “Right, Jade?”

“So why didn’t you just go after her, then, Jade?” Kit asked, throwing up her hands. “You clearly seem to feel something for her!”

Jade felt a full-blown blush heat up her face.

Tina sighed, “I told you, Kit. Jade is with someone else now. Umm… Fabienne, right?”

Kit shook her head confusedly. Young people these days!

Tina switched topics. “So, Jade, like I asked you yesterday, why don’t you and Fabienne come to our Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow? We’ll have plenty, don’t worry. Bette has been inviting everybody … literally. I have no idea whether we’ll have 10 or 15 or 20 or 50 people, but …”

Kit chuckled, and rubbed Tina’s forearm fondly, “One thing I’m sure you’re realizing by now, my sister has a thing about Thanksgiving. She can’t stand it when she hears about someone being alone on that day. Even when she was in LA, she’d bring in all kinds of people for our Thanksgiving dinner.”