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"Ah, let me guess, you're the best man?" She smiled, lightly placing her hand on my forearm.
"Actually, I'm the groom," I said coolly while slowly pulling my arm out from under her hand.
I expected her to look flustered or apologetic at least but she seemed unaffected by the information. In fact, her smile broadened ever so slightly. "When is the wedding?”
I raised a curious brow, wondering what she was up to and why she wasn't ending the conversation to move on to the next lonely businessman in the bar.
“The day after tomorrow.”
Her expression brightened and her tone lifted. “Then we are both in luck.”
“How so?"
"Because" she leaned in closer, her hand resting on my bicep, and she lowered her voice. "Now you have the opportunity for one last dalliance before you tie the knot."
I pulled back and gently removed her hand from my arm. "Thanks for the offer. But I'm not interested."
"A one-woman man? Such a rarity these days. But an admirable trait, nonetheless." She downed the rest of her wine in one gulp and put the money on the bar before taking her leave.
Finally, alone, I ordered another drink and lost myself in the worries of the day. Tomorrow my entire life could change with one simple little test. It wasn't that I didn't want children, heirs. But not from some one-night stand that I couldn't even remember because my brother most likely had roofied me in some attempt to make me loosen up.
I wanted children with Mia when the time was right, when it would be a happy occasion that we could celebrate together and not a complication that put our wedding and our marriage in jeopardy.
I sat at the bar drinking until late into the night. I drank more than I had in a long time, but nothing seemed to calm the nagging worry that kept creeping into my mind.
What if this is the end for Mia and me?
Mia
After Teo left, I couldn'tshake the uneasy feeling I got when he apologized for having to handle business that evening. While the other girls fluttered around the room, talking about the last-minute wedding plans, my mind kept drifting back to Teo.
Something was definitely off but I wasn't sure what. I hoped there wasn't anything serious wrong that Teo was trying to shield me from. I'd been through a lot at the hands of Andrea Romano, and the nightmares still haunted me, but I was healing. It helped to know that he was dead, and I was still alive. I had survived. It was something I reminded myself of every time the horrors of what he’d done crept into my mind.
Could Teo be getting cold feet?The fear crossed my mind, but he seemed so sure and so eager for us to get married it was hard to imagine that that might be the case.
“Mia did you hear anything that I just said?” Courtney studied with a puzzled expression.
