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I waggled my eyebrows at her. “Well, well…”
“Think he can handle Eve?” Nora asked with a wink.
“Oh, she might not even be crazy enough for him.”
She gaped at me. “Eve? Eve?”
I laughed. “Oh, the stories I could tell.”
“I would never have guessed. He seems so buttoned up.”
“Oh, he is.” I glanced around the room. “Mostly, I’m surprised he left without Harley.”
Nora followed my line of sight and found my baby sister dancing with Chase Sinclair. I took a step forward as anger coursed through me. She grabbed my arm to stop me.
“Hey, leave her.”
“She’s nineteen,” I growled.
“They’re just dancing.”
“One, I thought you hated the Sinclairs. And two, isn’t he thirty?”
“I don’t hate Chase, and I think he and Annie are the same age. Twenty-nine?” she said, watching them move together.
“That’s a ten-year age gap.”
“They’re just dancing,” she reminded me. “Just like us.”
Our eyes met as we twirled under the chandelier light.
“Fine. I’ll let them dance. But she is not leaving with him.”
Nora laughed lightly. “I’m sure Chase would like the distraction, but even he’s not dumb enough to take home a teenager.”
“Why would he need the distraction?”
“Oh right. Sometimes, I forget you weren’t here for all the drama. Annie and Chase were best friends growing up. Both always thought they’d end up together, but obviously…she just married Jordan.”
“And he still showed for the wedding?”
“Yep.”
“But he still loves her?”
“Yep.”
“Damn,” I said softly.
I glanced back over at him laughing with my little sister. That was neverever happening as far as I was concerned. I ignored how hypocritical that sounded, coming from me. But I couldn’t deny he needed the distraction. Just so long as it didn’t go past dancing.
“Leave them be,” Nora said, pulling me back into the dance.
As the night wore on, I watched Chase and Harley dance a half-dozen more times.
When all was said and done, I stood with a sparkler in my hand as Annie and Jordan walked down the makeshift aisle to the old-timey car they’d rented for the occasion. They kissed at the apex as we cheered for them and then drove off into the night.
Harley was still talking to Chase as the crowd dissolved around them. I grabbed her arm as soon as Chase headed to the parking lot.
“Don’t think about it.”
“Think about what?” she snapped at me.
“He’s, like, ten years older than you.”
“So?” she said with a laugh. She shook me off. “I’m not stupid. I’m going home.”
“Good. Be sure you do.”
“Having older brothers is the worst,” she said as she stomped off.
I sure hoped that she took my advice. She usually only listened to Whitt.
“Still worried about her?” Nora asked.
