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“Mandy?”
We both said it at the same time. How in the hell did Clare know this was Mandy? I looked back at Clare with a confused look. She shrugged and said in a lowered voice, “I, umm, lucky guess. Plus, she’s your type.”
That caused me to pull my head back. “I don’t have a type.”
Clare let out a humorless laugh, leaned in and whispered, “You forget I saw your latest one-night stand leaving your apartment recently. Skinny, looks like a model, is willing to sleep with you. You have a type, Wes.”
Mandy walked up with a smile on her face. “Fancy meeting you here. Wes, are you seriously following me around?”
“Wow!” Clare said as she gave Mandy a once over.
Glancing at Clare and barely even acknowledging her, she focused back on me.
“No, Mandy. Clare and I stopped in to get coffee. My office is right down the road.”
She narrowed her eyes at me. “Ron is meeting me here.”
Clare folded her arms over her chest. “Oh, this should be fun.”
Looking annoyed, Mandy asked, “Who are you?”
Before Clare could answer, I blurted out, “This is Clare, my girlfriend.”
Mandy looked shocked, Clare looked…well…she looked like she was going to rip my balls off and shove them down my throat.
“Girlfriend? I see,” Mandy said as she gave Clare a once over. “Where did you meet?”
Clare and I looked at each other. When it was clear she wasn’t going to offer up anything, I did.
“Clare is Rory’s best friend. Rory is Finn’s wife.”
Mandy looked surprised again. “Finn is married?”
I smiled. “So is Preston.”
“Well, goodness. How is Angie?”
I kicked at nothing on the ground. “Good. She’s in college and doing well.”
Mandy ran her tongue over her lips as she glared at Clare. “So, tell me, Clare, how long have you been dating Wes?”
Without even blinking, Clare said, “About three months now. We’re one of those enemies to lovers’ kind of story. We couldn’t stand each other when we first met.” She looked at me and plastered on the fakest smile I’d ever seen. “Honestly, I’m not sure we even like each other now, but I think it makes things better in bed, so I keep him around.”
It was my turn to cough.
Mandy’s mouth dropped open and she turned to Wes. “Um…the flowers?”
“I told you, it was simply just a gesture as a friend.”
A muscle in Clare’s neck twitched.
“Mandy, darling!”
The three of us turned to see a guy who couldn’t possibly be over twenty walking up to Mandy. He leaned down and kissed her on the cheek. Then looked at me and Clare.
“Friends of yours?” he asked.
I reached for his hand. “I’m Wes Ward, Mandy and I dated in high school and college.”
