Cat sighed.“The Woodvalley gossip mill knows nothing, I swear.”Yeah, right.“Only me, Rachel and Libby know.No one else, I promise.Not even Bella or Riley and let me tell you, they’ll be royally pissed off when they find out we knew and didn’t tell them.”
She wasn’t thrilled to hear that Cat thought the other women were going to find out, but the other stuff she said didn’t sound too awful.“Are you going to tell me what you, Rachel and Libby know, or do I need to find you a pen so you can draw me a picture?”
Cat’s laughter sliced through some of the tension now thickening the air.
“I knew I liked you,” she smirked.“Okay.Fine.Don’t be mad.But Benny told Zach about you guys...you know...doing the deed.”Fucking Benny.“And Zach tells his wife everything.She, of course, told me because we also tell each other everything...and Rachelmighthave overheard us.”
On cue, Rachel flashed her another guilty look.
Okay.This wasn’t a disaster.The town didn’t know.Just a few people in Benny’s friendship group.It could be worse.
“Wait.”Bethany waved a finger at the women across from her.“Do all the guys know, too?I take it you tell your husbands everything, too?”
Oh, for fucks sake.
She clearly didn’t need verbal confirmation.Their faces said it all.
“We suck.I get it,” Cat declared.“But we love Benny.And we’ve never seen him react to any woman the way he reacts to you.”Rachel was nodding right along with her friend’s words.“We just don’t want to see him get hurt, that’s all.”
Benny get hurt?Oh, please.
Bethany let out a noise that conveyed just how ridiculous she thought that statement was.It was a cross between a snort and pfft.
“You know that he was the one to break up withme, right?He brokemyheart.If anything, I’m the one who stands to get broken all over again here...not him.”
Rachel’s hand went to Bethany’s arm.“We didn’t know, sugar.No one told us anything.The first we heard of your existence was a few months ago when Benny got your wedding invite.”She still couldn’t believe her parents had sent an invite to her ex-boyfriend.Talk about inappropriate.“So, tell us.How long were you together, why’d you break up...start at the beginning.”
The beginning?Damnit.She was going to need another drink.
CHAPTER TEN
“Ow!”Benny complained, a hand shooting to the side of his head where Rachel had just flung a giant bag of mixed nuts at him.
“Oops,” she cooed, before disappearing back into the kitchen to join the others.
That was the third thing she’d chucked at his head since he’d arrived at Cat and Cody’s twenty minutes ago.He was starting to think she was doing it on purpose.
