Page 36 of One Foggy Christmas
“You know why I said yes.”
I shake my head like her answer doesn’t cut it. “You haven’t even been together the last four months, and then he just shows up here with a ring, and you say yes.”
“Stetson and I have a history together. I don’t need the last four months to tell me it’s right. Marrying him has always been the plan.”
“Whose plan?” My eyes dance across her face. “Yours or someone else's?”
“It’smyplan. I wouldn’t say yes if this wasn’t what I wanted.”
“I thought you were feeling…” I lean in even closer, feeling her warm breath against my lips. My words are left unspoken between us. What good would saying them now do? It would only hurt her. So I take a step back, my jaw turning hard. “Forget I said anything.”
“Nash—” she begins but is interrupted by Lindy’s sing-song greeting.
“Hellooooo!” Lindy spins as she enters the kitchen, letting her Little Bo Peep costume twirl around her ankles.
I take another step back, resting against the counter opposite of Sadie.
Lindy’s smile falters when she feels the obvious tension in the room. “What’s going on here?” Blue eyes bounce to me for some answers.
“Lindy, this is my intern, Sadie.” I gesture between them. “Sadie, this is my cousin, Lindy.”
“Oh, my gosh!” Lindy squeals, quickly shuffling forward to hug her.
Sadie’s brows jump as my cousin squeezes her to death.
“I’m so happy to meet you.” She pulls back, keeping her hands on Sadie’s shoulders. “Nash won’t stop gushing about you.”
I rub my brows in an attempt to ease the awkwardness.
“No, seriously!” Lindy laughs. “Every day, it’s Sadie this and Sadie that. Or you should’ve heard what Sadie said today. Or Sadie looked so?—”
“Lindy!” I try stopping the rolling snowball that is my well-meaning cousin. “She’s engaged. Sadie’s ex-boyfriend showed up unexpectedly tonight and proposed to her.”
Lindy looks at me over her shoulder. “On Halloween?”
I nod.
She turns back to Sadie with lowered brows. “No, no, no. I thought you and Nash were?—”
“Lindy.” I shoot a withering glare to my cousin. “What’s done is done.”
She morphs her frown into a smile, hugging Sadie again. “Congratulations!”
“Thanks,” Sadie says.
“Well”—I heave out a giant breath—“should we go?”
Lindy knows me well enough to see I want to get the heck out of here.
“Yep, let’s call it a night.”
I nod once at Sadie as she stands in the center of the kitchen, then I leave without a glance back.
SADIE
Nash hasn’t lookedat me for three weeks.
The last time his eyes truly met mine was in the middle of Reggie’s kitchen when he asked me why I said yes to Stetson’s proposal.
