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“Oh, there’s no avoiding all this,” his dad said. “This is Lilly’s first marriage. She still wants this whole circus.”
Now that made him genuinely laugh. “I cannot picture you doing the whole big wedding thing. Please tell me you’re going to have Savage Garden as your wedding song and mints on the table that say Liam and Lilly are mint to be. I’d pay money to see that.”
“Fuck off.”
That made him laugh harder. “I enjoyed my wedding but I was twenty-four years old. I think I was drunk by the wedding song. Remember how I ripped off my shirt Magic Mike style and Kendra’s dad got so pissed at me?”
His father laughed. “Oh, damn, I’d forgotten about that. And how you motorboated her during the first dance?”
“Oh, shit, that’s right. That was so bad. Kendra was so mad at me. She wouldn’t even have sex with me on our wedding night because of that.” Which, looking back, seemed a tiny bit petty to him. So neither one of them had been perfect. They’d been young and in love, but they hadn’t been perfect. Sometimes he forgot that.
“No shit? That had to be disappointing. But God, you were such an idiot.”
He hadn’t thought about his wedding in forever. Years. It had been too painful. But it wasn’t painful now. The memory was truly amusing. “I can’t argue that. I’m still an idiot. I just hide it better now.”
“Do you, though?” His dad grinned at him and nudged his foot with his own.
That made him snort. “Brutal. Trash talked by my own father.”
“You’re in love with Edwina Hunt, aren’t you?”
He didn’t know how his father knew that or why he was still spending every waking moment thinking about her but there was no point in denying it. “Yep.”
“What happened?”
“She has a boyfriend.” Which his father knew. Everyone knew that. He was surprised it wasn’t on the scoreboard at the Beaver Bend Friday night football game.
“Did you tell her how you feel?”
Sullivan had thought about that a lot and he’d come to the conclusion he hadn’t been as clear as he’d thought he’d been. He also wasn’t sure he was clear on what Eddie had meant with her response. He shouldn’t have walked away. She’d asked him to talk but he’d rejected her out of pride.
“I did. She asked me what I have to offer her.”
“What did you tell her?”
“Nothing. I walked away.”
“Are you fucking kidding me?”
“Nope.” He sipped his beer. “I was hurt by the question.”
His father just stared at him. “Well, hell if I know what to tell you after that. You fucked up bad.”
“Thank you for your support.” He frowned at his father. “You could give me some advice.”
Lilly came over to the table before his dad could respond.
Sullivan stood up and hugged Lilly, taking care not to jostle her heavily loaded plate. “Congratulations, Mrs. O’Toole. Or should I say congratulations, Mom?”
Lilly pulled back, her cheeks staining pink, eyes wide with surprise. She looked past Sullivan to his father. “You told him about the baby?” she asked. “I thought we weren’t going to tell anyone.”
His father shook his head. “No, of course not, just that we got married.”
Sullivan stared at her in astonishment. “Baby? You’repregnant?”
“Oh, shit.” She put her hands to her cheeks. “You called me mom so I thought you knew.” Lilly looked flustered.
Not as flustered as he felt. Lilly and Dad were having ababy?
