“If you don’t want to keep them beyond our marriage, you can give them back, but while we’re married, they’re yours.”
I opened my hand. The cufflinks were a little larger than usual and circular. Encased in the circles were two pieces of glass: red and yellow.
“They’re beautiful. Thank you. I don’t have anything for you. No heirlooms or beautiful things.”
He caressed my face with his thumb. “You’re giving me my whole world, my history, my legacy. That’s so much bigger than old cufflinks.”
“Hey, don’t talk like that about my cufflinks. My future husband gave them to me.”
He laughed. “That’s the Noah I know and…care about.”
My heart stopped for a second when I thought he would say something else.
“I’ll get ready quickly, and then we can go. Are Jax and Tanner out already?”
“No, I haven’t seen them. There’s no movement coming from either of their rooms.”
I got up from the bed and ran to the other side of the suite where their rooms were. I knocked on Jax’s door, but there was no answer. I opened the door carefully in case he was in the shower, but the room was tidy. As if he hadn’t been in it at all.
His bag was on the floor and his suit hung from the closet door.
Lior shrugged. “Maybe he’s in Tanner’s room?”
We rushed to the other room but found exactly the same thing.
“Fuck. Where are they?”
Last night, after our bachelors’ dinner and the disappointing lack of strippers, they said they were going out to stretch their legs from the flight and explore a little. Had they not come back at all?
“Okay, let’s stay calm. Why don’t you call one of them and see if they’re together?” Lior suggested.
I ran back to my room, my little breakdown already forgotten because losing my friends in Vegas was not on my Bingo card for this year.
Then again, marriage wasn’t either, so…
Jax answered on the third ring.
“Hey, man,” he answered, almost like he wasn’t really paying attention to the fact he’d answered his phone.
“Dude, where are you?”
“Um…breakfast…” There was noise in the background, and I swear I heard a shhh.
“Oh. Why didn’t you say? We can join you. You know Lior was going to have breakfast sent up, right?”
“Yeah…um…I, we didn’t know. We’re not actually at the hotel. Look, can we meet you at the chapel later?”
“Sure.”
“Okay, bye.”
I looked up from my phone at Lior. He had to have heard it.
“Was that the weirdest phone call ever, or what?”
“Yeah, a bit.”
I got dressed in my suit, and we shared breakfast in the suite. By ten o’clock, there was no sign of either Jax or Tanner, so we had to assume they’d do what they said.
