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I laughed as I put my head in with Harmony and went over what she was working on for it. It was going to be a feat to get the thing done in time. Adding a wedding dress on top of the work she already had to do was a lot to ask, but Katherine hadn’t been lying when she said Harmony owed her. She’d gotten her and Robert together.
Gavin reappeared at some point, pulling me back onto the dance floor. I leaned into him, more relaxed than I had been since we’d decided to go through with this. Maybe this would all work out, and everything would be fine.
“How’d it go with Robert?”
“He’s happy for us,” he said, brushing his lips against the top of my head.
I shivered at the touch. I could get used to this intimacy. “Good. Harmony too. They seem happy.”
“He does seem smitten,” Gavin agreed.
He twirled me around, pulling me back in close. I laughed as he moved me around the rooftop. This was not the kind of dancing I normally associated with Gavin. I was used to a lot more bumping and grinding. It was kind of fun to be whirled around the room like a princess with a partner who knew how to lead.
“I’m still not used to you dancing like this. Who taught you?”
“My mom and aunt love dancing. I’d go over to my cousins’, and they’d teach us all their favorite ballroom moves. I was an escort at a significant number of Junior Leagues.”
I snorted. “I cannot picture you like that.”
“You didn’t do big Texas rites of passage?”
“No!”
“Not even a mum?”
I swore. “Fine. I did wear a mum for homecoming. My sophomore year, I dated the Junior League president’s son. She made me the most elaborate mum to wear, and I was the envy of the entire school. It was so heavy that it had straps for my shoulders. There were so many bells that it jingled, and you could hear me coming down the hall.”
Gavin cackled. “Oh my god, I wish I had seen that. Wait, do your parents have pictures?”
“Don’t you dare, King!”
“Ah, come on, Bowen. It’s too much fun.”
“It was embarrassing. I broke up with him after that and hooked up with his older sister. I was lucky my mom never found out.”
“Heartbreaker.”
“That’s me.”
He bent down and stole a kiss.
I startled. “What was that for?”
“Because you’re cute.”
I narrowed my eyes. “That’s not a reason.”
“Sure it is,” he said easily and then tugged me back out into the dancing.
The best part about being around Gavin was that it was always a riot. I’d always heard that opposites attract, but in this instance, I’d never been more attracted to someone who was so like me.
We danced the night away, drinking with our friends and making the rest of the party laugh with our antics. It was a better night than I’d anticipated. No one seemed skeptical about our arrangement. They all accepted it as if they’d been waiting for it to happen.
One woman, who I only had a vague recollection of, even pulled me aside at the end of the night to say, “I’m so glad that you two have stopped pretending like you’re not together.”
I gaped at her in confusion. Had everyone thought that we were suited and just never told me?
Gavin went off to have a drink with Court sometime after that, and I found myself alone for the first time all evening. I’d sent Gavin after Robert earlier to smooth things over, but it felt like my turn. He’d been happily at Harmony’s side all night, and now, we were both alone. I strode over to where he sat in one of the near-empty booths.
