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“The party is in less than two hours,” Jason pointed out, hoping that his cousin ignored tradition and helped him He didn’t want to disappoint his wife and he sure as hell didn’t want to break a tradition that the men in his family held sacred

“Then I suggest that you stop bitching and get threading,” Trevor said with a s

“Your fifth anniversary is coet so da to need help,” Jason said pointedly as he gestured to the thin silver chain

“In three years,” Trevor said in that sa to piss him off

“You’ll need help then,” Jason bit out tightly as he arranged the tiny plastic bags in order, or at least, what he hoped was the correct order

“Unlike you, I didn’t wait until the last minute As soon as I realized that Zoe couldn’t live without me, I started to work on her necklace,” Trevor explained as he leaned back,

“Didn’t you have to beg her to marry you?” Jason pointed out, simply to piss him off

“I just let everyone think that”

“Uh huh,” Jason said, switching the bag holding a s the small dark, almost black, stone bead He’dlot where he’d carried Haley that fateful night when she’d released her adorable fists of fury for the first time

“You’re still not done?” Jarred, his father, snorted in disgust as he walked past them on his way to the kitchen counter

“Al that it wasn’t a lie

“Where the hell are my brownies?” his father demanded

“Jason ate the sure to sound properly appalled as the rat bastard did his best to screw him over

“You selfish bastard!” his father hissed in outrage,him wish that he didn’t have to finish this necklace so that he could kick his cousin’s lying ass

“Haley brought ten platters to the party,” Jason pointed out, hoping that his father and cousin would take the bait and get the hell out of here so that he could focus on the task at hand

“Godda a chair away froitation “There won’t be anything left by the tiet there,” his father bit out with a pout With aeven as he frantically rearranged the order of the ss

“Party’s not for two hours,” Jason pointed out, not bothering to look up as he placed the handmade stone beads in what he prayed was the correct order “If you leave now, Haley will probably let you have an entire platter to yourself to hold you over until the party starts,” he murmured absently