“On it.” Toni left, and Alex and I were alone again.
“How’s the wedding planning going?”
Alex made an expression that was part excitement, part grimace. “I can’t wait to marry her, but I also can’t wait for it to be over.”
I chuckled. “Ella was a bridezilla. I hid as often as I could.”
Alex had started working for me after Ella and I had married, so he hadn’t really known her until the twins were born.
“I keep buying her chocolate, and wines, flowers, everything I can because I know she’s stressed.”
I smirked. “And how’s that working out for you?”
He shook his head, his eyes wide. “Bad. If I bring her anything she can ingest, she accuses me of wanting to make her fat so she can’t fit into her dress.”
Laughing, I patted him on the shoulder. “Sounds about right. No matter how nice the woman, the bride is a different beast.”
“That’s for sure.”
“It’s going to be a beautiful wedding.”
He looked at me and smiled. “I know it will be.”
“Then the honeymoon, and if Mila is anything like Ella, she will make all the suffering very well worth it.”
He lit up. “Now,thatI’m excited about.”
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
Penn
“This one holdsup to fifty pounds, and this one holds eighty-five.” Danny held two different nylon ropes in his hands.
“Nothing weighs more than fifty, but let’s get the eighty-five just to be on the safe side.”
He nodded and tossed it into the basket. “Anything else?”
“Nah, I mean…” I moved down the aisle. “Maybe more stakes for the ground.”
“Have at it.” He held out the basket, and I grabbed a bunch.
“That’s good. Let’s go; we’re burning daylight.”
He chuckled and followed me. I’d just turned to head to check out when two large men blocked my way.
“Excuse me.”
They looked slightly out of place but not horribly. They had flannels and jeans on, but it was the way they were laser focused on me.
“I said excuse me,” I tried again.
“Maybe you should move,” the man on the left sneered.
I glanced at Danny, who was poised and ready to strike. We’d left the other two guys in the car because it was overkill for all of us to go into the store.
“I mean, I can move, but you’re both literally blocking my entire path.” I shrugged. “So, you see, it’s kind of impossible.”
The bigger of the two guys took a step forward. Danny pressed the basket into the man’s chest. “That’s far enough. What do you want?”
