Page 54 of An Unexpected Everything
“I see you guys didn’t get lost,” I said as Lance just beamed at me.
“No, but I tried to go into the wrong room, but thankfully I didn’t use the coat closet instead of the bathroom.”
“You should ask Dorian sometime about when he found my bottle of Gavilan, and almost did that exact thing,” Aston put in.
“Dorian did that?” Sam asked, her voice far too soft.
I narrowed my gaze. “Hey, watch it.”
Sam beamed. “I really just like putting more lovesick into my voice whenever you’re around when I talk about Dorian. Because you get all growly.”
“I’m going to have to beat that man up now.” I sighed. “And he’s my friend.”
“Who are we beating up?” the man himself asked as he walked into the foyer. We were at Aston and Blakely’s house before the wedding, where the twins and Lance would be staying since they had the space and Bella didn’t.
In answer to Dorian’s question everybody burst out laughing, and he blinked. “What? Is there something on my face?” When we only laughed harder, he waved us off. “Anyway, I’m glad that we could finally get you down into our little area rather than up in the mountains. Though I do love the mountains.”
“Cage Lake is quite beautiful,” Amy added, and then that’s when I realized that Amy, Joshua, and Harper had joined them.
Harper immediately went to Blakely’s and Isabella’s sides, hugging them tightly. “Are you sure I’m supposed to be here?” Harper asked, looking around the large room.
“I keep asking myself that same question,” I murmured.
“Sophia wants you all here. We have the rehearsal tomorrow and the wedding the day after,” Bella added. “But she wanted people who made her smile there, and a lot of the dancers she used to dance with really didn’t fit that.”
“And I suppose she wanted people to outnumber the Cages at some point,” I added dryly. Bella grinned at me and I felt like I’d finally done something right.
“Anyway, tonight is the stag party, as well as the bachelorette party, but I realize that it’s not a huge event because Cale and Sophia wanted to go small,” Aston put in.
“Why do you call it a stag party? We’re not in Europe,” Dorian said.
“Because I like to annoy you,” Aston said with a grin.
Bella laughed at my side, and I wrapped my arm around her waist.
“Should I be worried?” I asked.
“Should I be worried that you’re going out into the big city all alone,” Sydney said with her eyes wide, making fun of me.
“And just for that, you’re grounded,” I said dryly.
“I’m an adult now. You can’t ground me.”
“Graduation isn’t here yet.”
“Seriously?” Sydney asked, and Sam burst out laughing.
“If you’re grounded, then somebody has to stay back and make sure you stay that way.”
“Oh, you two are with me this whole weekend.” Blakely clapped your hands. “So if somebody’s grounded, I’ll make sureit happens. As in no extra sprinkles on their mocktail chocolate martini.”
“There’s sprinkles?” the girls said at the same time, and I shook my head.
“Are you sure you’re going to be able to handle them?” I asked Blakely.
“Hey!” Sam exclaimed.
“We have the room here. In a house that I’m not decorating,” she said, and Aston rolled his eyes.
