“We’d done pecks on the cheeks, but we hadn’t kissed-kissed,” Yasmine explained.
“And that’s supposed to be romantic?”Jennifer wrinkled her nose.“I feel like the romance is supposed to come before the kiss.”
“Yeah, Jensen kept buying Jennifer pickles even though he refused to ask her out,” Naomi said.“Has Mason gotten you anything other than the engagement ring?”
“Well… no.”Yasmine sighed.
“How was the kiss?”Cassidy asked.
“Um…” Yasmine appeared to be searching for words, and the expression on her face was not encouraging.
“Oh, dear.That bad?”Cassidy made a face.
“The subs at the club are always all over him; I feel like we’d have heard if he was abadkisser,” Jennifer said.
That made Audrey’s stomach flip over for a different reason.Great, more unwanted jealousy.
Maybe she needed to start dating.She’d wanted to focus on her bakery, but if she was dating, maybe her brain would stop focusing on a man she couldn’t have.
Even if his fiancée didn’t seem super enthusiastic about him, which was a travesty in her opinion.But feelings couldn’t be forced.They were still getting married, regardless.
“It wasn’tbad,it just… I don’t have a brother, but it’s what I imagine kissing my brother would feel like,” Yasmine explained.Jennifer immediately recoiled, and Claudia made a retching noise that Audrey felt compelled to echo.The idea of trying to kiss-kiss David… blech.Yup, that was the noise.“Things will get better.They have to.”If the level of determination in someone’s voice could affect outcome, Audrey had no doubt that things would get better for Yasmine and Mason.
And she was happy for them.
Really.
“Right well.”Claudia cleared her throat as she looked down at their completed Phase 1 of the game.Apparently, there were three in total, and even after playing through the first one, Audrey still didn’t feel like she knew what she was doing yet.“Let’s start Phase 2.”
Putting her head down, Audrey focused on the game.Tomorrow, she’d download a dating app.Or maybe she’d wait until after tomorrow night.Cassidy and Ashley had convinced her to go to the Outlands tomorrow night to celebrate her soft opening, just to see what it was like.
Maybe she’d meet someone there who would help this unwelcome attraction to Mason dissipate.
ChapterEleven
Mason
Lunch with his fiancée.Easy enough.Or so he’d thought.
But she wanted to talk wedding plans, just like his parents, and he’d been ducking his mother’s calls for the past few days, much to her annoyance.Wasn’t it the job of the bride and her family to plan the wedding?He thought he was just supposed to take care of the honeymoon.
Although, to be honest, he hadn’t started making any plans toward that, either.
“Okay, so a year out works for you?”
“Yeah, that should be good.”
“Or maybe we should make it a year and a half so we can have a spring wedding.Or a June wedding.”Yasmine dragged her teeth over one side of her lip as she stared down at her tablet, which she had open to a calendar.
“Does it matter?”Part of him wanted to get it over with faster, but another part of him wasn’t unhappy with the idea of pushing it off farther.Another symptom of the proverbial ‘cold feet.’Making a major life change was always accompanied by resistance in one way or another.
Yasmine’s head jerked up, and she stared at him across the table.Shit.Maybe it did matter.
“I mean, whatever you want is fine with me,” he said hastily.“Are weddings supposed to happen at a certain time?”
“May and June are really popular for weddings, but that means it’s also when everything is the most expensive.People like spring weddings.There are really beautiful things for fall weddings, too.And winter weddings.I don’t think I would want to do a summer wedding past June, though, or a winter wedding, just because of the unpredictability of the weather.Though if everything’s inside, the summer weather won’t matter as much.”
“But the winter weather will?”
