Page 135 of The Bridges I've Burned

“Oh, thank God.” She shoved the makeup in my direction. “Please take over; otherwise, I’m gonna look like a clown.”

I rolled my eyes. She did know how to do her own makeup. She just thought I did it better.

Which was true.

“I’m sorry I scared you today,” she said softly.

I’d started looking through her lackluster assortment of makeup and grimaced. She was in serious need of an upgrade.

I reached down and rifled through my duffel until I found my own makeup bag.

“Why are you apologizing?”

“I should have known something was up,” she said. “I felt a little dizzy, and my throat was dry.”

I picked out a brow pencil and got to work. “You need to take it easy.”

“I will,” she promised. “Macon’s basically my shadow now.”

“Well, not for tonight he isn’t.”

Her brow arched, and I scolded her for moving it.

“Sorry!” she said, trying not to laugh. “What do you mean?”

“We’re having a sleepover. It’s your last night as a single woman. Do you think I’d let you spend it with your fiancé?”

“I’m not really single?—”

“Shhh,” I said, and this time, she really did laugh. “Not the point. Macon is going next door with the guys, and we’re staying here.”

I’d originally planned on having Molly and Millie here but decided to scale back after Marin’s tumble.

I wanted her to have fun, but, like, not that much fun. We needed her to have enough energy for the main event.

“But what about Zander?” she asked.

“What about Zander?” My heart rate tripled.

“You two have such little time left.”

I shrugged as I primed her eyelids. “It’s fine,” I told her. “We both knew this day would come.”

“So, you’ve talked about it?”

“No.” I let out a frustrated sigh.

“Why not? Is he avoiding it?”

I selected an eye shadow palette and swept the brush over a muted pink shade.

“No, he actually brought it up on the phone today. It’s just?—”

I brought the brush to her lid, but she steadied my hand and looked at me.

“I know you’re scared.”

I swallowed back a lump in my throat, nodding. “I just keep thinking about all the horrible things that could go wrong, and I just don’t know if it’s worth the risk.”

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