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Chapter One

"I’ my share of the work away from me Bennett failed to even look up, so I added, "And by that, I ot a tiny flicker of a s this for the past hour, he was still in Wedding Preparation Zone, and would keep robotically working until the entire, unending pile of cardstock in front of hi roorams Across fromit to the Completed stack

It was a simple process:

Fold, move

Fold,for San Diego, and our bags were all packed but for the four hundred wedding prograroaned as I remembered we also had to tie five hundred blue ribbons around five hundred tiny satin bags full of candy

"You knoould ht so much better?" I asked

His hazel eyes flickered to ag?" he suggested

"Aer "What wouldto Vegas, getting iant hotel bed"

He didn’t bother to reply to this, not even a whiff of a smile It was probably fair to say he’d heard this exact sentiment from me approximately seven thousand times in the past few months

"Fine," I replied to his silence "But I’m serious It’s not too late to drop all of this and fly to Vegas"

He took a ra around--enuine irritation swept througha quick blink fro "Don’t patronize er at hiave oddaer dissipated sonoringa bitch

It was the perfect setup for ase ofa deep blue T-shirt that was so old and worn, the collar was frayed and--even though I couldn’t see it--I knew there was a tiny hole right above the heh and touch the war that T-shirt and I’d asked hiainst the bathroom counter, just so I could wrap it up in my fists

I rocked a little in s "Bed or floor Your choice" I watched him as he remained impassive, and added in a whisper, "Or I could just cli down at his work, Bennett said, "You can’t get out of wedding preparation with sex"

I pulled back to study him "What kind of ave etting this done so I can focus on wearing you out later"

"Wearover to hied Adrenaline dripped hot and electric into roan "Where’s all this money you have? Why haven’t we hired so, Bennett wrapped his hand aroundmy knuckles, he very deliberately set my hand back at ht before we leave for San Diego?"

"Yes! Because sex!"

"But isn’t it nicer like this? Enjoying each other’s colass to take a dra like the happily affianced lovers we are?"

I glared at hiuilt trip "I offered sex I offered hot, sweaty, floor sex--and then I offered to give you a blw jb You want to fold paper Who is the buzzkill here?"

He picked up a prograether with Elliott and Susan Ryan welco of their children, Chloe Caroline Mills and Bennett James Ryan"

"Yes, yes, it’s so romantic," I whispered "Come here and touch me"

"Officiant," he continued, "the Honorable Jahed, and droppedto pretend it’s Spike perforentlee Marsters perforo," Bennett chastened ot to zip up his pants is a mistake anyone could have made"

"Three tiuilty formy memory of the old, frazzledsite ent out to see it last fall, and got lost on each of three trips to thewith his fly open each time "But do you think he’ll remember our na--"

Bennett cutmy bra and underwear, and then his expression went a co," I started, reaching behindif he forgot what he was doing halfway through the cere the program before my brsts were exposed; he e "You’re being a pain in the ass"

"I know I also don’t care"

He quirked an eyebrow as he looked up at me "We’re almost done"

I bit back rams was the least of our worries; the next ith our two faether had the potential to be a disaster of Griswold-faht now be a lot better than thinking about that? My father and his two boozy divorcée sisters alone could make us crazy, but add in Bennett’s side of the faet out of there without a felony under our communal belt

Instead I whispered, "Just really quick? Can’t we take a little break?"