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“Be right with you,” Zoe sang. “God, I hope it’s not one of the men already.” She said, more to herself than to me.
Jackson glanced over at me, gave me the same sexy smile he’d given me the entire time I’d known him, then grabbed his phone from his pocket and began texting someone.
“There you go, Bailey. Just slip into that, and then one of my girls will be in to pin,” she said, stepping out of the small room, pulling the curtains closed. “Whatever you do, don’t…”
“Open the curtain.” I know.
I locked eyes with Zoe, letting her know I was done with her attitude. She quickly averted her and walked out of the room. Irritated, I set my purse on the chair and took a minute to gather myself. Why hadn’t Cara told me that Jackson would be here this morning as well? If I had known he’d be here, I’d of switched my shift at work instead. It was bad enough I was getting the attitude from Zoe.
“Jackson, you’re early,” I heard Zoe say in a much nicer tone than the one she’d greeted me with.
Instead of getting changed, I parted the curtain a little. I wanted to see what was going on.
“Yep, I was on my way home from work. Figured I would stop in now instead of just getting to bed, then having to get a little while later. Plus, I have to work tonight, so I’d like whatever sleep I get to be worth it.”
I kept my eyes glued to Zoe, especially when I noticed how she looked at Jackson. As I watched them speaking to one another, I noticed she looked for every single opportunity she could to lay a hand on him.
“You know, it’s great to see you.”
When she wasn’t looking Jackson glanced over his shoulder toward my dressing room, but didn’t say anything to her.
“I’ve given it some thought about what you said the other night. I don’t want us to be over. I’ve really been missing you the last few nights. Think you might have a free night soon so that we can get together and talk about things?” she asked, resting her hands on his chest.
I could see the tension in Jackson’s jaw as he looked down at her hands. He shook his head. “Zoe,” he said, taking hold of her wrists, and removing them from his chest, “This isn’t the place nor the time to discuss this. Besides, I meant what I said.”
“I don’t think you did. I certainly wasn’t expecting you to end things with us. That wasn’t the vibe I got from you the other night when you asked me to come to your place.” she said, meeting his eyes and placing her hands back on his chest.
“Zoe, it’s enough,” Jackson said, raising his voice loud enough for me to know he was uncomfortable with her advances. “I told you, it’s over between us.”
I watched as her cheeks turned red and she fought to maintain her composure as she nodded. “Well, now that you’ve embarrassed me, I am sorry you feel that way.” She mumbled as she stepped back away from him.
“Zoe, it wasn’t meant to be said to embarrass you.”
She nodded her head and turned away from him. “I know, Jackson. It’s okay. I’ll be right back. I just want to see if one of the girls can help you out back there.”
As soon as she was gone, Jackson glanced back over to the curtain I was behind. For only a moment, I was certain he’d seen me watching them, and I hoped I’d stepped back quickly enough. I prayed he hadn’t seen me watching them through the crack, even though I was pretty sure he had.
I was just undoing my jeans when I heard Zoe’s voice, and again I peeked between the curtains, this time to see that Jackson had now hung his jacket up. He turned back toward Zoe, giving me a glimpse of his perfect ass in a pair of tight-fitting jeans. The white T-shirt he wore hugged every muscle he had.
“All right, Jackson, we have the room set up on the other side.” Zoe walked over and laced her arm through his, resting her free hand on his bicep.
An undeniable surge of jealousy fired through me. I wanted to shout out and tell her to take her hands off him, but bit my bottom lip instead, stopping myself. I had zero right to be jealous. After all, I had given him up.
“You are going to look amazing in this. Makes me wish I were going to be your date,” she continued. I rolled my eyes at her comment. Could she lay it on any thicker after being told they were over? Then panic set in. Was he going to bring a date?
“Is that right?” he questioned.
“Yes. This suit will also bring out the color of your eyes.”
I rolled my eyes again. Of course it would bring out his eyes, you nitwit. Sky-blue eyes against a black suit were obvious. I clenched my fists at my side and had just kicked my foot out of my jeans when the curtain was pulled open by the girl who was coming in to pin my dress. She stood there shocked that I was standing there in only my t-shirt and panties instead of the dress. Then my eyes moved to see Jackson and Zoe standing behind her.
“I was expecting you to be in your dress.” She barked. “We don’t have all day.”
I looked at her with a scowl, and then Zoe stepped forward.
“Bailey, is everything okay? Did the dress not fit or did you need help to get into it?” Zoe questioned.
Jackson glanced over and gave me a small but very sexy smile. “Not at all,” I bit out as I pulled the curtain back across without saying another word and quickly slipped into the dress.
