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Although she couldn’t see it, I grinned. “Fine, don’t forget to return the ring.” I hung up the phone and looked at my two stunned friends.
Resting my ankle on my knee and my hands behind my head I let them wait for an explanation. If I was honest I didn’t think the wedding would get cancelled that easily, but it felt good to get the last word in.
“She said if I didn’t take her to the charity event, she’d call the wedding off. I hope she meant it, but I have a feeling it was all talk.”
“Then why are you grinning,” Reece asked.
“Because it felt damn good hanging up on her.”
Reece banged his head against the wall he was leaning against, focusing his gaze back on me. “That’s fucked up.”
“Okay ladies, let’s talk music,” Donovan said, changing the conversation as he walked back into the room with his guitar.
I shot him a relieved look and nodded, “Sounds better than my screwed up life.”
“Yeah it does, although the drama in your life is much more entertaining than anything on the box.”
“We need to decide which songs we’re going with Saturday night,” Donovan jumped in with, before I could reply to Reece.
Chapter 28
Thalia
I’d tried on about ten pairs of boots so far, and was starting to get bored, but Liam kept saying ‘just one more pair’. I was going to scream. While the sales assistant went to root around in the back to see what else she had in my size, I started wandering around the clothes section.
They had some pretty decent stuff hanging up, one of which was a lovely, pale pink dress in the softest fabric. With a quick glance at the label, I decided to buy it along with a tank in white and a pair of pale blue denim shorts, which looked like they’d be real short.
I smiled thinking about Jack’s reaction if he caught me in them.
“Thinking about Jack again?” Liam asked. I’d forgotten I was with him!
“What gave you that idea?”
He laughed. “You’re joking right? Every time he’s on your mind, your entire face lights up like it does when you’re in the same room.”
Wow, I didn’t know what to say to that. I had no idea my reaction to Jack was so obvious, it surprised me that Liam would notice.
I needed a breather to get my composure back. “I’m just going to try these on,” I said to Liam already nearing the dressing rooms.
Inside I closed the curtain, hung the clothing up on the hooks in the room then sank to the floor putting my head in my hands.
There was no doubt about it; I wasn’t falling for Jack. I’d already fallen. I needed Callie.
Rooting around in my purse, I found my cell and dialed my best friend, but her cell just rang and rang. Damn. If I didn’t talk to her soon I’d burst. Liam had become a good friend over these past few weeks, but the kind of things I wanted to talk to Callie about I couldn’t say them to a guy, especially when it was his brother I needed to talk about. Ugh.
“Mia, are you sure seducing Jack is the way to go, I didn’t think you liked him much?”
Shit. Was that Mia and her friend? Two bitches together.
“Hush up, before someone over hears you. I told you the other day, he tried to cancel the wedding, but I acted all dumb and left. I need to make sure he marries me and the only way I can think of is to seduce him and tell him in a couple of weeks that I think I might be pregnant. Of course I won’t be because I’m on the pill, but it’ll work, you just watch.”
Oh my God. I felt sick to my stomach. I needed to tell Jack what she had planned, but wait a minute, didn’t Jack tell his dad that he hadn’t slept with her. So, perhaps she wouldn’t be as successful as she thought. I hoped not, because he was mine. God, if only.
Hearing them leave I poked my head out to check if the coast was clear. Without trying the clothes on, I snuck back out in to the store to find Liam, who would you believe stood chatting and smiling away to Mia and the girl, whose name escaped me…Rebecca.
“Ah, here’s Thalia. Did everything f…”
“Everything was fine. I found what I was looking for. Thanks Liam,” I said quickly, before he could announce I’d been in the dressing room.
