“Shipwreck’s next most important groom scared us,” Annika says. “Scared your goat too. One of us should head home and let Sue inside. I think that’s where he was headed.”
Grady looks at Davis.
Davis nods.
“Heard you’re getting married,” Grady says.
“Yep.”
“Gonna treat her right?”
“As right as she wants me to.”
“Don’t be a dick.”
“Sometimes necessary.”
“Not for a fake wedding.”
I choke on air. “You guys.Quiet.” If Davis snuck up on us, who else is listening?
“Isn’t a fake wedding a dick move by default?” Davis’s brown eyes cut to me. “No judgment. Guilting someone into a fake wedding is also a dick move.”
“You could’ve said no,” I sputter.
“Meant your family.”
I blink.
He just called my family dicks.
And I think I like it.
“Don’t piss off your bride in front of the guy who’s making your wedding cookies,” Grady says.
I shake my head. “I’m not pissed. I’m grateful. And annoyed, but grateful.”
Davis is still watching me like he knows I’m finally putting into words that my family is full of dicks.
And I feel a little guilty for that, but also, they are.
“How many people know this is fake?” I whisper to Annika.
“Know? A very small handful.Suspect? Most of the town. But also, they’re well-trained.”
My face is getting hot. “I know I should’ve told you?—”
“That guy who crashed the wedding? The hot one?” Annika interrupts.
“He wasn’t that hot,” Grady mutters.
“Grady. We’re happily married, not blind. He got past all of security because he’s Hollywood hot.”
“With a terrible personality,” Davis adds.
“Exactly,” Annika says. “If I were you, I wouldn’t risk anyone spilling the beans to a guy with that kind of personality. Especially when all of your best friends are pregnant and/or keeping up with toddlers.We’re tired. We love you, and we get it. We wouldn’t tell us either if we didn’t have to, and the fact that I didn’t even wonder why you never told me you were dating is very much a statement about my mental capacity to handle complex information right now.”
“Or it’s a testament to how much you know some people who are main characters in this wedding are very secretive and private,” Grady says.
