Her attraction to my buddy seemed fake, and then one day she shot me a glance, challenging me to say something.Jack was so in love with her by that point, we all knew he wouldn’t listen to any of us.
At first, Mason and Drew pulled me aside, telling me to give her a break.
“He loves her, man,” Mason said, cornering me at our favorite bar.
“Loves her tits.”I sneered.
“Well”—Mason rubbed his jaw—“they are nice tits, but come on, she’s okay.”
“Drew, back me up here.”
“Oh, man.He’s happy.Look at him.”Drew shrugged, using his glass to point in their direction.
“That’s called cunt struck.”I shook my head.“Sandy never even looked at him until he inherited his fortune.Am I the only one who sees through her bullshit?”
“So, you don’t think Jack can pull a girl like Sandy?”Colt asked, joining us.
Asshole.
He put me on the spot.
Jack wasn’t in the same league as the rest of us, and we all knew it.Fuck, even Jack knew it.But that wasn’t what this was about.My instincts were screaming that Sandy was only in it for the money.
I was proved right when six months later she held up her hand and presented an enormous diamond ring.
Zander glanced my way, both of us thinking the same thing.
“There’s no hurry,” I said to Jack a week later.
“Life is short, Seb.”Jack slapped me on the back.“When you find the one, why wait?I want to live my life with the woman I love.That person is Sandy.”
Those words haunt me almost every day.
“So why not just take your time?”I was thinking of the quote,love is blind.
“Marriage is important to Sandy.”
I bet it is.
“Come on, she’s not a virgin,” I’d said before catching myself.I still don’t know if that comment cost me my place as his best man, but Drew ended up with that honor.It was probably for the best; I wouldn’t have kept my thoughts to myself if I were standing beside him on his big day.
The moment we graduated, they married.
Three months later, he was dead.
They were honeymooning in the Seychelles when we got the call.
He died of a cardiac arrest.
“He just collapsed!”Sandy sobbed against Drew’s chest when we next saw her.“My Jack.My darling Jack.”
Oh, please.
Drew patted her back and caught my eye.His unsaid words screamed,you were right.
Sandy might have fooled Jack, but her acting that night was terrible.When the coroner said he found a small needle-like mark behind Jack’s ear, we pushed for an investigation.
Sandy suddenly changed from a grieving new wife to a defensive victim.“It was his grooming tool.How dare you?Jack was the love of my life.”
