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“Give me twenty,” I sit up and drag my hand over my face, scratching at the scruff along my jaw. “I need to jump in the shower.”
“Make it fast. I’m just fueling up. I’ll be home in ten,” Liam didn’t wait for my response before hanging up, leaving me chuckling. It seems someone has a case of Bridezilla’s, and it surely isn’t the bride.
CHAPTERTHREE
Amara
Embarrassment and pure horror consumes me as I walk down the sidewalk toward Liam’s awaiting vehicle. I can’t look up, the fear of seeing the man in the passenger seat is crippling. I’m horrified.
I woke this morning to Claire’s beady eyes, and a smirk. She sipped her coffee and watched me as if I was some kind of circus show.
“You’re a creep.” I grumble and roll away from her.
“I’m not the creep who pawed Tyler in the middle of the bar, and practically sucked his lips off his face.”
It only took seconds for her words to sink in, and a horrible flashback of the previous night's events hit me like a freight train. I feel physically ill.
“Oh fuck my life!” I know I only mumbled the words but by her giggling echoing around the room I knew she heard them.
“I thought it was a dream.”
“Or a nightmare,” Claire chirps.
It took hours for me to calm down, and then another couple hours to build up the courage to call Liam, fearing he already knew of my advances toward Tyler.
When he acted as though he knew nothing I was relieved, yet he wouldn’t agree to allow me to drive myself to the resort.
Nope, because being trapped in a car with my cousin, who just so happens to be a firefighter right alongside the firefighter I happened to molest the night before, is just the embarrassing way my life tends to work out.
So here I am about to face the awkwardness I created for myself, with the courage of way too many shots. I blame it all on the alcohol because never in my life have I ever had the nerve to walk up to any man and just kiss them. Or paw them and all the other things Claire felt the need to describe to me in great detail all while I walked around my apartment feeling sick to my stomach.
“We’re late because Tyler spends more time getting ready than most females.” Liam grabs my bags and tosses them in the back.
“This hair takes maintenance,” Ty says from my left and the deep rumble of his voice makes my body instantly react. “It’s a process to keep it this soft and shiny,” he leans in closer and near my ear whispers. “Go ahead and run your fingers through it, I know you want to.”
I swallow hard and hold my breath, looking up at Liam who doesn’t seem to notice.
“Nope, I’m good,” I say in a rush and hurry away leaving Tyler chuckling behind me.
“I’ll ride in the backseat,” He hollers out as I am opening up the back door.
“Already claimed it,” I am not about to spend the entire drive feeling like I can’t look anywhere but straight ahead. At least in the back I can cover my face with the book I have stashed in my handbag, or I can curl into the blanket I brought and pretend to sleep.
I hear him and Liam exchange words but to be honest I can’t seem to focus on anything more than my racing heartbeat pounding loudly in my own ears.
The ride to the resort is filled with chatter about Linc and how he had work to finish up before he drives down with his best man, Spencer, later this afternoon. Irritation fills me as I think of how disrespectful my workaholic cousin is being to his fiancée Audrey. She is much too understanding, but from the anger and frustration rolling off Liam, I’d say there isn’t much more room for anyone else to be pissed, Liam has that covered.
A huge part of me wants to corner the younger West son and ask him why he seems more into this upcoming wedding than the actual groom. But then I fear opening a huge can of worms that may be hard to contain. I have my suspicions though and I don’t think I’m the only one.
* * *
“Wow,” I stare ahead as I scan over the beautiful landscape and sprawling resort grounds before me. I’d seen brochures and Audrey has described it to all of us in great detail over the last several weeks. But nothing compares to actually seeing it.
It’s perfect and incredibly romantic.
“You plan on ignoring me this entire weekend?” My entire body goes rigid from the sound of Ty’s voice just over my left shoulder. I hold my breath, trying not to bolt which is what my head is screaming for me to do.
“May be a little hard to do considering we have a long line of wedding events that we both have to take part in.”
