Page 9 of Dangerous Encore
I shake my head. "We needacake."
He nods and pulls back to a semi-respectable distance. His blue eyes boreintomine.
God, his eyes are beautiful. Expressive. Fulloflife.
His lips curl into a half smile. He takes my hand and rubs the spot between my pointer finger and my thumb with his thumb. "Talktome."
"I'm glad you're here." I scoot closer. "It's a lot. And it'salmosthere."
His expression is earnest. He's really listening. He always listens. He always does everything he can to make me feelbetter.
He's the personIwant.
I should be happy about our wedding. I shouldn't be agonizing over what flavor of cake we're going to order and exactly how we're going to decorate it, and how people are going to reacttoit.
It'sacake.
It's not the thing that defines us as acouple.
But it feelsthatway.
I'm staring into my fiancé's eyes, and I'm thinking about fucking cake decorations. "I need another morning in the showerwithyou."
"Right back at you." He leans in to press his forehead against mine. "You can say when, Vi. We can get in my car and drive to Vegas right now and do thisjustus."
I shake my head. I want everyone to see us getting married. I just… I want it to beeasier.
I let my eyelids presstogether.
And I let my lipsfindhis.
God, Ethan is a goodkisser.
My hand goes to his dark, wavy hair. I pull himcloser.
I kiss himharder.
If only this was the entire ceremony. I could happily spend the next three days practicing our kiss. Though it's really more like two days. Barely sixty hours. Ormaybeless.
There's the click of a camera phone. Andfootsteps.
A low, deep chuckle echoes aroundtheroom.
"Baby, you're going to get arrested one of these days."That'sKit.
Oh.
It's not that I don't like the bassist. I do. Quite a bit, actually. But I don't want any moreopinions.
Piper looks as adorable and bubbly as always. Her blond hair is hanging over her pink blouse. Somehow, she makes jeans and wedge bootsadorable.
She has those expressiveStrongeyes.
They're as filled with joy asEthan'sare.
She smiles as she takes her seat. "I can't help it. You two are so cute. Oh my God, did I show you the one of Mal and Lacey I got at thelastshow?"
"Do I want to see it?"Kitasks.
