Am I out of my damn mind?
I need to stop playing around.
You didn’t have to kick her out like that.
How are you going to get her back?
You’re a damn idiot…again.
“Do youmind?” I grind out through my tightening jaw. “I’m looking at my future wife.”
“She ain’t gonna be if Tad has anything to do with it.”
I scoff,loudly, I may add, because he doesn’t have anything on me but more suits. “She’ll be bored with Tad within the next few weeks.”
“I dunno,” she drones as I look back to where Sienna disappeared. “Tad has some swag.”
I don’t removeanyof my annoyance when I look back at myfriend. Zoe played her role to a tee tonight for me. I shouldn’t be giving her shit because she’s doing a solid for me and hates town events like this.
She’s introverted, smart as hell, and too good to be doing this for me.
“Swag? What, how to kiss the ass of the people to get him elected again?”
“Youngest mayor the town has ever had,” she reminds me with a sweet smile.
I roll my eyes. “He just flirts.”
“Which is how he probably got Sienna.” She smooths the front of her dress down, this pale pink number that fits her like a glove. “But don’t worry, I have some pent-up resentment issues toward Tad. I know his weaknesses and plan on displayin’ those for you tonight.”
I frown.
“This doesn’t have anything to do with—” She gives me a curt nod, and I shut up about the rest.
Zoe had thisthingkinda going on with a buddy of mine—more like a family rivalry—and I don’t know how the two of them manage to stay out of each other’s way, but they do.
And she doesnottalk about it.
He doesn’t either.
It got messy, but I’m not getting into that tonight. I already have enough shit on my plate.
“I’m guessing that’s why you signed up,” I tack on.
“Well, it wasn’t to go to anotherSweetheartBall.” She gives me an annoyed look. “This town has nothing else better to do.”
“I told you to leave.”
“Tried. Failed.”
“You can still go. You’d love?—”
“And go where? Some big city where people are more annoyin’?”
“I dunno about all that.”
“How would you know?”
“You staying with your grandparents for a weekend doesn’t constitute as you knowing big-city life.”
