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Obviously Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to make demands of , oldI barely know My dad expects the saave him She was a former beauty queen raised by parents froe that was basically arranged, dutifully had two children, and never said no to her husband on any matter whatsoever My mom is placid, sweet, biddable, and still a size two She’s naturally blonde with hardly any grays—she announces this nearly every day like it’s so—she plays tennis, goes to dinners with s to two country clubs, swi in the backyard pool froourmet meal at the drop of a hat, and has ih apparently not when it coh doing charity work and being charitable s, and she was the rew up, where she did all things model mothers do

Anyhere was I? Right

Where the ever-loving fuck is Taylen?

I start to panic—ent s through the place Everyone remains frozen in the pehere there are three rows and two aisles in between It’s al everyone’s heads swivel back and forth like a bunch of shocked owls

Oh, it’s on It’s so bloody on

I don’t htail the hell out of there when Henry’s ar ledthe stunned crowd No one has hest,screa me

Literally, he shoves rabs my arm and whirls me around in front of him “I don’t want to die!” he screams “Take her instead! Her first!”

What the hell is up with him? It’s just a fire alarm

So ht of a husband that was never to be

Since Henry’s basically givenbehindhim and his shameful display of very cowardly public indecency, I snatch up the skirts of the horrible h, and bolt down the thankfully still clear aisle

My grand past withbehind me, she screeches at me in a way that only she would dare She only wears haute couture, which todayout at least two feet around her waist, such that she’s barely in the pew she’s supposed to be seated in She’s also wearing a hat that stands about two feet off her head, and it is decorated with scarlet feathers that wave in the air as she turns her head to yell after me

“Get back here, you little s for this!”

I let out a gleeful whoop as I clear the doors and burst into the back of the church The double doors are only a few feet away, and the ht awaits ray-eyed, six-foot-four, od of a partner-in-criht was attractive because we don’t do that I know he’s handso so it If I licked hiht be sexy, but he’s so much more than that to ht have on me

We o that ouldn’t do the whole stupid falling in love with each other thing and ruin our friendship, so there you have it

Taylen is fir My list is simple Just enemies and friends, which means people have to be in neutral territory before they becoable

“What took you so long?” I huff as I race to the doors “I almost had to marry the bastard!”

Taylen’s grin is like ink spreading across crea and totally shit-eating on an otherwise perfectly co”