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He’s been staring at me intensely lately, and although I love his eyes on me, it’s making me uneasy. For the first time, I have no idea what’s going on behind those hazel eyes.
“Okay, ladies!” Aubrey stands on a chair. Actually, she’s straddling two chairs, one leg on each.
Again, most of the younger women aren’t on the floor, but Alice, Jean, and a few others are. Aubrey turns around, careful not to trip on her dress.
“I’ll double my bet that Aubrey falls off the chairs,” Rylan says.
I put out my hand, and he winks.
She tosses the bouquet, and the women watch it like a first time tball player in the outfield, unsure where it’s going to land. It lands in Alice’s hands, and she raises it like a huge prize.
“Grandma?” Aubrey says, not seeming as excited as her grandma that she caught the bouquet.
Declan helps Aubrey off the chair unscathed.
“No luck today, Greene,” I say.
“I guess that’s you naked under my hands, bathed in oil twice.” He shrugs.
I narrow my eyes at him. “Somehow, I think neither option was really a loss.”
“Okay, time for Petey to put the garter on Alice!” the head of the band announces.
Aubrey puts up her arms, waving off the instructions.
“Sit on down, Alice girl.” Petey lowers himself to the floor slowly, and Alice sits on one of the chairs Aubrey had been standing on.
“Oh my god,” I say, with my hand over my mouth.
Aubrey searches me out and widens her eyes. She wants me to do something, but I’m not sure what I can do. This whole scene is already in motion.
I rush out from the sidelines and open my mouth, but nothing comes out.
“You two don’t have to do that,” Rylan says at my side.
“What? You think we can’t? Who’s this guy?” Petey looks at Alice.
Alice shoos us. “Go. We’re not invalids.”
We step away. Declan is laughing so hard, Aubrey elbows him in the side.
“Babe!” he screeches.
The entire audience watches Pete put the garter over Alice’s tan orthotic pump, then he lowers his mouth and drags it up her thigh with his teeth.
“Shit, they did it,” Declan says. “I’m scarred for life.”
Petey must do something with his mouth when he’s between her legs because she hits him on the back, laughing.
The band announces it’s over and everyone claps except for Declan, who’s staring with his jaw wide open.
“Close your mouth, honey.” Aubrey puts her hand on his jaw and moves it into place. “Let’s go cut the cake and get these people’s minds on something else.”
She drags Declan away and I finally let my laugh loose.
The night is coming to an end. The retirement gang had gone back to the home earlier, and a lot of the other guests had already left.
Declan is perfectly healed from his groin injury now, as evidenced by the way he whirls me around the dance floor while “Happy” by Pharrell Williams plays over the speakers.
