Page 109 of My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“Yeah.”Kennedy crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes.“And strangely she doesn’t look homicidal this time either.Even though you ran out of that wedding and left her there like a big jerk.”

Kennedy had taken Tori’s side immediately.Though she had paused for a second to be impressed with the photos he’d sent of Tori’s hair and makeup for the wedding.

Josh sucked in a deep breath.She’d come after him.Again.“Where is she?”

“The dock,” Kennedy said.“And you should know that Sawyer has now seen her breasts.Naked.”

Josh started to move past her but stopped at that.He looked at his sister.“Excuse me?”

Kennedy looked a little smug.“She came by Uber.And she marched down that dock to where Sawyer was tying up the boat.She tossed him a strand of beads, he turned, and she pulled her shirt up.For him and the entire boat of frat boys he’d just brought back from a tour.”

Josh’s eyes widened.“What?”

Kennedy frowned.“She thought he was you.She was making a biggesture, Josh.She took anUber.She came after you.Again.And she said this whole thing about how Mardi Gras was the best day of her life and how she wants to make every day Mardi Gras, but she needs you for that…or something.She kind of cut off in the middle of it when she realized it was Sawyer bending over on the dock and not you.”

Josh felt his smile spreading.He was madly in love with that woman.

Who had just made a big gesture for him.

“Where is she now?”

“Main office.”

He started in that direction.

“Hey, we have a tour coming in!”Kennedy called.She’d need the office to process their payments.

“No we don’t,” he told her.

“Yes, we do!”

“Figure it out, Ken.”

“You have ahouse, you know.With a bedroom.”

“It’s three blocks away,” he called back as he crossed the road.

“Exactly!Onlythree blocks away!”Kennedy called.

“Too far!”He rounded the corner of the tour company’s building and yanked the door to the office open.

Tori was sitting on the stool behind the main counter.

“Youhaveto stop mistaking other men for me,” he said, pulling the door shut behind him and locking it.

“Maybe you need to start being where I expect you to be when I come looking for you,” she said, giving him a smile that clearly said she was thrilled to see him and relieved.Relieved that he wanted to see her.

He was a dumbass.He never should have made her doubt that he wanted her.Not even for the two hours it had been since he’d left the church.

“Yeah, I do,” he said with a nod.“I need to be there for you.Every time.I’m sorry I left.”

“I am too.I made this whole big speech about being in love with you.”

Love rocked through him.“In front of everyone?”

“Yep.It’s on YouTube and Facebook if you want to see it.”

“I definitely want to see it.”He took a step toward her.

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