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Lilly emptied another tattered Sweet’N Low packet into her coffee and stirred “Very funny I pull that, and Hayden will go all bridezilla on a tiny unsuspecting town in Vere”
“You do realize that your probleet offered a road trip with a sex-on-a-stick ex-Marine with deeply repressed eirl to kiss it and make it better And you actually expect me to feel sorry for you?”
“I don’t care if he is an A related to one of h to ed and she looked up to find an elderlyin She blew out a frustrated breath “He’s still a complete jerk”
Paige shrugged “Maybe you should try again People change”
The fact that he was an hour late proved he hadn’t He didn’t respect her time any more than he’d respected her as a person
“No They don’t” Once an unreliable asshole, always an unreliable asshole She’d been subjected to too h their holess substitutes for the one man who had never wanted her for more than a quick lay Her father
Lilly quickly put the lid back on that depressing box and blinked the memory of her mother’s face away “Why do you care so much, anyway?”
Paige folded her ar the space between her brows “Because you ate like two tubs of Ben & Jerry’s over this guy, Lil”
“Your point?”
“My point is you’ve never stuffed your face with ice creauy,” she said “I’ve never seen you let so, I think that says so”
“It’s not happening, Paige Get over your sexy soldier fantasy Trust me, I have”
Another round of people poured through the door, none of them her ride
Paige was right Lilly had let Nate in She’d let hi time, she’d actually found someone she liked And in return, he’d proven that he was just like every other ht with his dick instead of his brain Lilly followed Paige’s interested gaze to twoin line Cute But neither sparked even a flicker of interest inside her No one had since her night with Nate
Yet another reason to hate him The bastard had broken her libido with his wonder penis Jerk
Without perainst hers, his shoulders bunching under her fingertips No one had ever kissed her that thoroughly Touched her like he couldn’t get enough Made her pulse pound and her panties ith nothing ainst her ear
She squir this to her! She’d put all that behind her Moved on She was perfectly happy hating Nate fro with hioing to put a serious chink in her self-control
“At least tell e said as she sat up straight and tightened the red bandanna keeping her hair in place As if she needed the touch-up to grab any a instructor, for God’s sake The woman could bounce a quarter off of her abdoh your boxes for an hour just to find thes me to my next point You are a terrible packer”
As if Lilly needed the re to be out of a hoa studio, there was no way Lilly could afford the rent on their apart to end up on her brother’s sofa God help her
“Hey, I have a system,” she said “And you better have packed those boxes back the way I had them”
“Stop changing the subject Did you bring the outfits or not?”
“You roomsman bait?” Lilly raised a brow “You know I can’t show up to this wedding looking like I’htclub ThereI need to ood impression”
Paige tore her attention away fro her smile, and faced Lilly “Who said you have to wear it at the wedding? Why not now?”
Lilly frowned down at her leggings and off-the-shoulder pink shirt “What’s wrong hat I’?”
Paige shrugged and sipped her latte “Nothing Unless you were interested in dishing out a little torture on Private Panty-Melter He is an hour late It’s not like he doesn’t deserve to be messed with”
Lilly tapped her coffee cup, considering Paige had a point While shehi Nate a set of blue balls to ood to pass up She couldn’t let hi her wait Not after the way he’d treated her this past year If she let him have the upper hand this early in the trip, she’d never live it down With Nate it always felt like a battle, and she was in no ed and Lilly looked up Not Nate Again As a woman in head-to-toe floral-print scrubs walked past their table, Paigebrow
She took a deep breath and grabbed her cup, purposely sloshing a few drops of coffee onto her shirt “Oh! Would you look at that? I guess I’e, after all”
Paige grinned “Wear the white one He won’t knohat hit him”
Lilly stood and rolled her carry-on toward the bathrooed, she was clad in a wispy white dress that brushed the back of her thighs, a snug h heels that she knew s look pheno road trip, but hey, everyone had to ht?
She sank back down on her seat and pulled a tube of lip gloss out of her purse and swiped it across herher with a little smirk