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Chapter3
Felina struggledto find the words to explain to this handsome man why he’d just been tagged as her plus one without sounding pathetic.“I don’t know where to begin.”
“Start with the blonde,” he said.“Trish, I think you said.Who is she, and why am I going to her wedding as your plus one?”
Squaring her shoulders, Felina lifted her chin.“Trish was—is my best friend.I’m doing the flowers for her wedding.”
“Okay...and why did you feel the need to tell her I was your plus one?”
Felina winced.“She’s marrying my ex-boyfriend.”There.She’d said it.
Lucas nodded, his eyes narrowing.“Isn’t there some unwritten female rule that friends don’t poach on a friend’s ex-boyfriend?”
Her lips pressed together.“He wasn’t my ex-boyfriend at the time.”
Lucas’s eyes widened.“She was fooling around with your boyfriend while you were still together?And Trish is still your friend?”
“We told her she was a fool to still be friends with Trish.”Danny plunked two mugs of beer on the table in front of them, then straightened.“She should’ve scratched her eyes out or at least slashed her tires.”
Lucas winced.“Remind me not to get sideways with you.”
“Don’t screw with my friends, and we’ll be good,” Danny said.She looked at Felina.“You okay?”
Felina nodded.“I am.”
“Look, if this guy doesn’t want the job, we’ll find someone else.”Danny gave Lucas a stern glance.“If he knows what’s good for him, he’ll take the job.”She pointed two fingers at her own eyes and then at Lucas.“I’m watching you.”
Lucas held up his hands.“Hey, don’t spit in my beer.I’m just an innocent bystander who happened to find your friend in the gravel out back.”
“Yeah, but you’re a man.”Danny’s mouth pressed into a tight line.“You can’t trust men.”A shout from a table nearby caught the waitress’s attention.She hurried away, muttering beneath her breath, “Bellowing bastards can damn well wait.”
Lucas’s gaze followed Danny.“Is she always so scary?”He turned back to Felina.
Felina smiled.“She works here, doesn’t she?You have to be a little badass to put up with some of the customers.We have all kinds coming out of the bayou for a drink.”She smiled.“She had a bad breakup with a guy a couple of years back.Since then, she’s put up a wall where men are concerned.”
“It’s damned effective,” Lucas said.“And you?”
Her smile faded.“What?”
“The ex?”He tipped his head toward the blonde who’d slid onto a stool at the far end of the bar.“Was it a bad breakup?”
“A bit unexpected,” Felina said.“I never knew he was seeing my best friend while we were supposedly still a couple.”
Lucas took her hand.“Sounds like you dodged a bullet.”
Felina’s lips twisted.“Shelby said the same thing.What’s with you gun-toting people and your bullet analogies?”
He grinned.“It’s what we know.”
“I guess.”Her gaze was still on Trish, where she sat alone at the end of the bar.She’d said she’d come to meet someone about business.What business?Trish owned a beauty shop.
“Did you love him?”Lucas asked.
“What?”Felina yanked her thoughts back to the man holding her hand.She tugged her fingers free of his.“What was your question?”
His eyebrows rose.“Did you love him?”
Felina’s eyes narrowed.“I thought I did.We’d been together since high school.Everyone expected us to marry someday.Then he broke up with me, and two weeks later, he was engaged to Trish.”
