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I clap excitedly.“For the wedding?That’s exciting.How long to go now?Three months?”
“Yep.Best man duties will be kicking off soon.”He rubs his hands together with a smirk.“I can’t wait for the bachelor party.Gonna have Marco saying goodbye to his single life in style.”
A snicker escapes me.“DoesMarcoknow anything about this?”
“Nope.”He accentuates theP.“But the pressure’s on me now.He’s the first of us brothers to get married so I have to set the standard for which everyone else must follow.”
My brow lifts.“Planning on getting married soon, Luc?”My pulse kicks up a notch at the thought of my best friend committing his life to another woman—someone who’snotme.
“Nah,” he replies with a shake of his head.“You know that’s not on the cards.But Gio and Alex will surely be heading down that road soon, and knowing G, he’ll probably have safe-and-sensible Marco as his best man.So if this is the only chance I get to be in charge of festivities, I’m going to make sure it’s memorable.”
I nod and lift my mug, taking a long, slow sip to wet my dry, tight throat, my mind still stuck on the prospect of a future where I might have to watch Luca meet a woman and fall head over heels in love with her when it’s my fantasy he’ll suddenly wake up one day and realize the woman of his dreams has been by his side all along.Dreams are free, London,I hear Violet say in my head.
Luc taps my ankle with his under the table.“You’re going to be my date, right?’Cause you know there’s no one else I’d want on my arm.”
“What?”I splutter, the word coming out as a croak.
“For the wedding.You’ll be my plus one, yeah?”
I’m already nodding, still in a bit of a daze.“Definitely.”Of course it’s as his best friend—not adate, date.
Luc knocks his knuckles on the table and I jerk my gaze to his.“What?”
“You went quiet and your lips went all tight.Everything okay?”Concern is written all over his expression.
I wave my hand in the air.“Oh, don’t mind me.My brain just short-circuited.Must be from the lack of coffee sincesomeonestole some of mine.”
He studies me, as if he doesn’t quite believe me.“So, how is your sister?”
My smile is genuine.“She’s good.Just checking in with me as per usual.”
“That’s what family does.And it must be the day for it since I had a meet with Cap at the end of my shift.”
“Oh, really?What for?”
He sighs and slouches down in the seat, his legs pushing out and tangling with mine like they torturously always do.I love it and hate it in equal measure.“He wants me to take the lieutenant’s test.”
I gasp and jump in my seat.“Luc, that’s amazing.Congratulations.”
His lips curl into a half smile.“Yeah.I haven’t said yes yet.”
My head jerks back just as my brows go sky high.“Why the hell not?”My voice is a touch on the loud side, which earns a single quirked yet rather amused eyebrow arch from Luca.
It’s then that Molly slides our coffees onto the table and takes my empty mug away.
“Calm down, beautiful.I haven’t said no either,” he says a beat later once we’re alone again.
I slowly exhale.“OK.Good.That’s good, Luc.”
“Is it?”he asks, lifting his cup to his perfectly curved lips, his gaze locked with mine.
“Yes.Of course it is.You’d make a great lieutenant.My father doesn’t suffer fools.”
The corner of Luc’s mouth tugs up.“Well, Scotty maybe,” he says, making me giggle.
“Too true.But seriously.Are you going to do it?”
“I think so?”
