Page 185 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 2
“Going to your bachelorette party and getting double my normal fee is thanks enough. Gotta run!” He actually ran - sprinted right out of the dining room and I heard the door slam closed a second later.
“Double the normal fee? Bachelorette party? What?” Daphne asked.
“He had a few contingencies. Don’t worry, I negotiated him down.”Not. Whatever.It was fine. Justin wasn’t asking too much. Thiswasinsanity. In two weeks they’d be walking down the aisle. I smiled. Sometimes insanity was really fun.
Rob laughed. “I love that guy. He’s hilarious. Do I get to come wedding dress shopping with you?”
“No,” Daphne and I said at the same time. She smiled at me. “Do you think you could come with me, Penny? And we could call Bee too. It would be fun to do it with you two.”
“Of course. I’ll call her right now.”
“Thank you so much.”
I excused myself from the table and walked into the kitchen.
James was leaning against the kitchen island eating another waffle.
“Are you hiding in here?” I asked with a laugh.
“That depends. Is Justin gone yet?”
“Yeah, he just left.”
“He was hyper today.”
“You riled him up with your choice of attire.” My eyes landed on the outline of James’ junk in his gray sweatpants.
“I don’t think you can see anything…”
I outlined his length with my finger. “We’ve been over this before. You can seeeverything.
He laughed. “So that was why Justin was so hyped up?”
“That and I’m pretty sure he’d already had a lot of coffee before he even got here. And he’s really perturbed by the whole two weeks thing.”
James nodded. “There’s another wedding at the country club that day, so we can’t use the main ballroom. It’s a pretty small wedding though, so the kitchen will be able to accommodate Rob’s wedding too. Fingers crossed it’s nice outside and we cando an outdoor thing. So we have a venue and catering. What’s left?”
“Everything else.”
He nodded. “We should leave them to it then. It’s beautiful out. Let’s go for a walk in the park.”
“James, we have to help.”
“You saw what happened in there,” James said. “Rob didn’t ask me to be his best man. Hell, he didn’t even ask me to be a groomsman. I don’t think they need our help.”
I thought I’d imagined James looking a little jealous about the possibility of Rob asking Matt. But I definitely didn’t imagine the hurt in his voice right now.
“I’m sure he’s just going to ask you privately.”
James shrugged. “Who cares.”
“You care.”
“No, not really.”
I just stared at him. He clearly cared. “You’re being silly. Rob said he was going to have three people in his wedding party. That’s you, Matt, and Mason. You’re in it.”
James shrugged again.
