Page 92 of Just One of the Groomsmen
“You knowseems to be the new code word. But it’s okay. He can make his own decisions.”
I just might have to castrate him if he chooses wrong, so it’s convenient that that won’t make our friendship weird or anything.
The other bridesmaids were over there as well, chatting with the rest of the guys, so it was more of a group thing, and as soon as her feet regained circulation, she’d go join them.
Addie rubbed at her aching muscles, hitting the pressure points to help provide relief and wishing they worked magic instead. “I can’t believe you willingly submit yourself to wearing heels.”
“Iloveshoes.”
“I love shoes, too, but I love ones that love me back.”
Lexi laughed, then slumped down in the chair and let her head fall back with a sigh. “It’s all coming together. I was seriously about to have a nervous breakdown last week, but your mother is a godsend. She has a ton of connections, as well as an eye for design, and we might actually pull off this wedding in time.”
“Of that I have no doubt.” Addie glanced at Tucker again. Brittany was going above and beyond in her flirting attempts, slowly licking off the frosting from the cupcakes Lexi had provided from Maisy’s Bakery for an after-dance-torture treat.
“I thought she’d be more help when it came to the wedding,” Lexi said, clearly talking about Brittany again, “but she always claims to be too busy. When she was so excited tonight, I thought it was for the waltz, probably because I love the waltz. Have ever since I saw it inBeauty and the Beastwhen I was a little girl. It’s so classic and romantic, you know?”
There was that “you know” again, and although Addie didn’t know, she nodded.
She got the gist and why Lexi would like it, even though during that movie, her main thought had been wondering if her parents would let her get a pet wolf.
“Why are you even still friends with her?” Addie brought her hand over her mouth. “Sorry. My filter’s obviously broken today.”
Lexi simply shrugged it off. “It’s okay. I get it. But she and I have been through a lot together.”
Just like Addie and her group of guys had been through a lot together.
Maybe too much to realistically throw romance into the mix.
Whoa, that makes me sound like the one girl in the middle of an orgy.
Make that romance withoneguy. Maybe if she was a different girl, and circumstances were different, and ugh.
Although Tucker’s posture was closed off, his arms crossed, and he was only politely nodding here and there, Addie hated how much watching the pretty brunette flirt with him brought out her insecurities.
Not like she needed proof that she’d never be smooth, but the other night certainly proved it, and she’d never be able to lick frosting off a cupcake without either smearing it across her face or inhaling at the wrong time and choking on it.
I wishshe’dchoke on it.Immediately guilt flooded in. She shouldn’t be aiming bad wishes at anyone.
How could she compete with that, though? Brittany was exactly the type of girl Tucker had always gone for, too, which so didn’t help.
Addie was just make-believe sexy, playing in fancy clothes and makeup for a wedding. It wasn’t her.
Would never be her.
Once she stopped dressing up, would Tucker think she’d gone back to boring Addie, the plain girl he grew up with?
They had chemistry to spare right now, but part of that was probably the mystery. The excitement of the unknown.
There’d been times she’d thought she and a guy had crazy sparks in her past relationships, and then they’d finally have sex and it’d be meh, and all of a sudden she wouldn’t have a relationship anymore.
And still she’d feel disheartened and slightly rejected at the end of it.
If things were meh with Tucker? Her stomach knotted. She wasn’t very worried on her end, but—as she’d been thinking about way too much lately—most of his girlfriends exuded sexiness without even trying.
If the spark misfired, would that cause a chemical reaction in their friendship, and would it be bad enough to destroy it?
Could they honestly go from seeing each other naked and adding that whole new level of intimacy, to fizzling out, to sitting in his houseboat and joking around and playing poker with the rest of the guys, things completely easy and normal again?
