Page 47 of Cocky M.D.
I cringed. “Doesn’t matter.”
She pushed my hair off my shoulder and stared at me. “Did you tell him you loved him?”
Damn.I’d thought my eyes were dried out from tears, but Ridley always saw inside my heart. I lowered my head.
Georgie squeezed my shoulder. “You told him?”
I nodded. “Why is that shocking?”
She gazed at the rest of my sisters and said, “Because you spoke up for yourself and didn’t hesitate.”
Wow. They really understood me. My skin heated. “Oh, well, I guess.”
Georgie came from behind me and hugged me. “I’m proud of you, sis.”
Over clothes stopping me from being with Johnny?I wasn’t like them. I’d lost. I let out a sigh as she let me go and said, “Look, I’m not proud. I’m… sad.”
“Spill,” Stephanie said and scooped up the bottle of wine to pour more for herself. “You have a wedding dress in the back seat of your car, so you were clearly shopping. You’ve grown as a person. Why are we not celebrating your wedding? Was there more?”
“Nothing like what you went through.” Unlike the rest of our sisters, Stephanie had suffered heartache. I sighed and said, “Johnny doesn’t believe in love.”
“Oh,” Ridley, Nicole, Georgie, and Indigo said in unison.
I narrowed my gaze at the four happy brides, who’d married men they adored. “You wouldn’t understand. All of you have amazing husbands who love you.”
Georgie sat next to Indigo and said, “Now they do, but it wasn’t easy.”
I massaged the back of my head, half expecting it to explode if any of them said they’d had my troubles. “What do you mean? Your weddings were beautiful expressions of your feelings.”
Georgie poured her wine as she said, “I didn’t know who Michael was to even tell him I’d had his child.”
“You found him.”
“Then we almost broke up because I was a jerk who refused to move to New York City.”
No.I shook my head and said, “You hate New York, and he plays for the Sooners.”
She scooped up popcorn as she said, “I love being in Tulsa, but I almost lost out because I didn’t want to believe in love, not after Mom and Dad.”
Huh?I tilted my head and said, “They loved each other, though.”
Georgie’s gaze narrowed, then she shrugged and said, “I guess.”
Indigo put her glass down. “Well, Jacob and I only married because he needed a temporary wife. And I said yes because I wanted the money.”
My eyes widened. If any of us would marry for cash, though, Indigo was most likely. Her wedding ceremony in Napa had been a fairy tale. “You didn’t.”
She nodded and said, “I did. We had a contract, and I wanted to start my own company, and he’s not hard on the eyes.”
My heart twisted. I’d guessed the other day that she would be the one I could ask for advice. My skin prickled. I wasn’t as calculating as she’d been. I sipped my wine and said, “Wow. What changed?”
She twirled her wine and said, “Life, and he’s a great guy. I never thought I’d be in love or get married. But Jacob is a dream.”
Unlike her, though, I didn’t want anything else. I had no business goals, as I was clearly the slacker of the family without big plans or dreams. I’d wanted to be accepted and loved by the man I fell for. I ignored the pang in my heart and said, “I didn’t know that.”
She sipped her wine. Then she rolled her eyes. “He had bigger issues with that father of his.”
Interesting.Maybe Johnny had more issues than he’d let on. Storming out like I had meant I would never get to ask. “Wow. I had no idea.”
