Page 65 of My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

Josh gave him a smile he knew was very smug.“Oh, she’s already met them.But they can’t wait to spend more time with her.”All true.Very true.He loved that.

“You’ve met his family?”Andrew asked Tori.

He thought Josh waslyingabout it?Asshole.

“I have.They’re wonderful,” Tori told him.Then she smiled up at Josh.

And Josh knew that was completely true as well.Because Tori didn’t lie.She might bite her tongue.She might not always say everything she thought or felt.But when she did, she didn’t lie.

Man, he really liked her.

“But, she has to be back by Friday night.She has to get her hair and makeup done early Saturday morning,” Paisley said.

Josh couldn’t help but notice Tori’s little shudder.Josh put his arm around her, pulling her up against his side.“We’ll figure it out.”

“You mean, ‘I’ll be sure she’s back in time,’” Paisley told him with narrowed eyes.

Josh nodded.“Or something.”

“Josh—”

“It will be fine,” Tori said quickly.“Josh and I understand that this is your big day.”

Paisley sniffed, in the snootiest way Josh had maybe ever heard.

“Fine,” she finally conceded.

Clearly Tori being out of the way and occupied by Josh rather than Andrew was more important to Paisley than Tori having the perfect hairdo.

“And now, if you’ll excuse us,” Josh said, looking directly at Andrew.“I’m going to take my date upstairs.”

Andrew’s jaw tightened and he said nothing.

“Of course.We’re so sorry for interrupting,” Paisley said.She grabbed Andrew’s arm again.

“We’ll want to leave early tomorrow,” Andrew said, not moved by his tiny fiancée.

“Absolutely,” Josh said.“I’m used to late nights followed by early mornings.”He bartended in the Quarter a couple of nights a week and was up with chores for the tour company every day.But he was very happy to let Andrew assume he meant those nights went late because of women.

Sometimes they did.But he never spent the night with women.They were almost always tourists or women he knew from the bars in New Orleans.They weren’t spend-the-night-and-have-breakfast-with-me women.

He really wanted to have breakfast with Tori.Did she like grits?Because sweet grits were one of his favorite things in the morning and he’d love to make them for her.Of course, he was certain shower sex with Victoria Kramer would easily knock the grits out of the top spot on his list of favorite morning things.

“You’ll join us for breakfast?”Andrew asked, directing the question to Tori.

She wiggled, itching a spot on her rib cage and then one on her thigh.“Um,” was all she said.

Fuck Andrew if he thought his breakfast was better than whatever Josh was going to be offering her when the sun came up.

“I’ll take care of Tori,” Josh said, squeezing her waist.“Just meet us out front at nine.”

Andrew’s eyes narrowed and he looked from Tori to Josh and back.“There will be blueberry muffins.”

And fuck Andrew if he thought his blueberry muffins could top Josh’s sweet grits.

“Well, you know I love blueberry muffins,” Tori said with a little smile.Then she dug her fingernails into that apparently very itchy spot on her side.

Also fuck Andrew for knowing about her love for blueberry muffins.“I’ll get you whatever you want,” Josh told her.

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