Page 272 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 2
Tanner laughed. “Thanks for inviting me,” he said and put out his hand for Rob to shake.
Rob didn’t shake it.
For the love of God. Just shake the man’s hand!I didn’t care if I was being a hypocrite. Because if Kristen put her hand out for me right now I’d grab it and make her slap herself.
“I brought a gift,” Tanner said and pulled an envelope out of his front pocket. “I’ve had my private island reserved for youand Daphne for your honeymoon. All expenses paid, including travel. Five-star resort living without any other patrons.” He handed Rob the envelope.
“We already have our honeymoon planned. How utterly thoughtless of you.”
Tanner shrugged. “I promise this’ll be better.”
“Than the honeymoon I planned myself for the woman I know better than anyone else in the world? I doubt that.”
“I was just trying to…”
“Well it didn’t work,” Rob said. “You and I will always be enemies.”
Wow this was going so much worse than I expected. “Should we start taking more pictures?” I whispered to James.
James shook his head. “This is too good not to watch.”
“Enemies?” Tanner laughed. “I have enough of those. Come on, man. I’m trying to clear the air here.”
“Well, all I need for you to do is admit that you wear goblin shoes and a man bun every Tuesday night.”
Tanner frowned. “Yeah…but I don’t. So…”
“Lies! At least admit that I’m Matt’s best friend, not you.”
“Come on, Rob,” Matt said and put his arm around Rob’s shoulder. “Today’s all about you. Let’s get these pictures taken so we can start this epic reception.”
Rob sighed. “Fine. Away with him though.”
“I’ve got it,” Justin said. Justin looped his arm through Tanner’s. And Tanner laughed but casually sidestepped away from Justin. I looked over at Rob and gave him what I hoped was an “I told you Tanner isn’t gay” look.
Rob just glared at me. “Trash gift,” he said and shoved the envelope against James’ chest. “Let’s get these pictures taken.” He pulled Daphne into a hug.
She whispered something to him and Rob’s anger melted away. He leaned down and kissed her.
Hopefully she’d told him to be nice. The gift Tanner had just given them was lovely. They were crazy not to take him up on that offer. I couldn’t imagine what kind of crazy stuff was on an island owned by Tanner Rhodes.
I heard giggling and turned to see Kristen all over James again.For the love of God!She was supposed to be posing in pictures. Not acting like a homewrecker.
I walked over to them and grabbed James’ hand. “Picture time, lover.”Lover?Why had I just said that?
James suppressed a smile. “Of course, lover,” he said back. “Lead the way.”
He managed to not laugh until we were a few feet away from Kristen.
“Lover?” he asked.
“I wanted to make sure Kristen knows I’m pleasing you on a regular basis.”
“I could be pleased right now…” he reached down and squeezed my butt.
I swatted his hand away. “I swear, if they captured a picture of that…”
He silenced me with a searing kiss. “Silence, lover.”
