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Fifty-Four
Aoife
It wasa beautiful day when I climbed out of the Porsche and peered over my sunglasses at the façade of Aidan’s estate.
“Looks like it’s been hit with a flower bomb,” Finn murmured from behind the wheel.
I smiled.
He wasn’t wrong.
“Savvie likes peonies.”
“Trust me,” he said, “I know. Aidan told me.”
“You guys talk about flowers?” I laughed. “So, it’s not all about tax evasion and hostile takeovers?”
His mouth cocked up in a smirk. “It’s eighty percent that. Three percent flowers. Seventeen percent shit that would turn your hair curly.” He slipped his glasses down his nose. “Oh, wait, it’s already curly.”
I’d embraced the curl today, thinking, ‘fuck it.’ It was a late spring wedding, why couldn’t I go boho chic when I wasn’t a part of the bridal party?
And no, that wasn’t a complaint.
His eyes clashed with mine and…
Damn.
Double damn.
A shiver rushed down my spine.
It was the first time in months that I’d felt that way.
I looked at him and saw a beautiful man. Much like I made a pan of brownies and knew they were delicious but didn’t eat the whole tray.
I’d been… I didn’t want to say dead inside because that was extreme. But how he looked at me had my mouth working as the lightning bolt that had always existed between us surged to life once more.
He felt the zap of it too.
His head reared back, his mouth firmed, and a look that was pure predator overtook him. Everything in me responded to that. Flickered to life because of that glance.
I sucked in a breath.
“Aoife?” he rasped, his voice sending more shivers down my spine.
“Finn, I—”
“Aoife!” Jen screeched from the doorway, making me jump.
I twisted around before I could finish my sentence and found my friend waddling over to me because of the toe separators she wore to keep her nails dry.
My brow furrowed at the sight. “I thought you went for a pedicure yesterday.”
“I did. I chipped a nail.” Jen shuddered. “I had to do them.”
Behind me, I heard Finn mutter to Jake, “Cockblocked, buddy. But never get between a woman and her friends. That’s advice that’ll take you through life.”
Lips twitching, I asked, “Why did you have to do them?”
