Page 14 of Resisting You
“Where are you going?” Hazel asked before I could lock myself inside to change.
“To find Noah.”
She stopped the bathroom door, gliding her foot in the way before I could shut it in her face.
“How? You don’t even know where he—” I thrusted the invitation at Hazel.
“Oh, right,” she said as she read it. “I forgot about Ronnie’s wedding, but … oh. Oh, no. Rosa, you can’t crash Ronnie’s wedding. Have you ever met his sister? She makesmelook like a kitten. She’ll break you right in half if you ruin her big day.”
Giving up on trying to shut her out, I set the dress to the side and yanked my toothbrush from my cosmetic bag. “I’m not going to ruin anything!”
“That’s literally what everyone says… right before they ruin something!”
I scowl over my shoulder at Hazel as I run my toothbrush under water. “I promise you, I won’t mess up anyone’s wedding. I’m the daughter of a senator. I know how to do understated drama. Trust me.”
I punctuated the last two words by shoving my toothbrush into my mouth and scrubbing my teeth.
Hazel slumped against the doorframe of the bathroom. “I’m not going to be able to talk you out of this, am I?”
I shook my head, toothpaste foaming around my mouth.
With a sigh, she turned around and started rummaging through my suitcase. “If I can’t talk you out of it, then at least go dressed properly. You’ll stick out like a sore thumb in that cocktail dress.”
I bent over the sink and spat. “So, what… more like a backyard wedding?”
“That’s exactly what it is. But that doesn’t mean you should show up in jeans.” She pulled free a sweet a-line strapless dress that was covered in blue pastel flowers. “Here. Wear this instead.”
I caught the dress as she flung it across the room toward me. “You get dressed,” Hazel said. “I’ll pack up your bag for you. Anddon’t forget to change your underwear.” She tossed me a pair of panties from my luggage as well.
I smiled warmly at my best friend, hugging the dress to my chest. “Thank you.”
She rolled her eyes and waved me away, already elbow deep in my bag, folding my clothes. “Hurry. You don’t have a lot of time.”
I kicked the bathroom door shut while yanking the Flaming Lips t-shirt overhead.
Dammit, Noah. This weekend was supposed to be a celebration of Hazel and Reid’s marriage… and his sister’s marriage. Instead, I was stuck hunting down my husband on a quest for a divorce.
I froze, the summer dress halfway up my hips.
Husband.
Divorce.
My hands turned clammy and cold instantly. I had sworn to myself I would never end up in a loveless marriage like so many of my father’s colleagues.
And now here I was.
But there was still time. I had to find Noah today and begin the annulment.
Chapter 6
Noah
I’ve performed on dozens of stages, been on a long-running hit television show, and just last summer, had my first supporting role in a feature film. But nothing compared to the butterflies I felt this morning as I prepared to officiate my sister’s wedding.
Between the nerves of waking up beside Rosa and knowing that it wasn’t real… that she and I weren’t actually going to stay married… and the nerves of going in front of dozens of family and friends and marrying my sister to Lex, I was a wreck.
I sat out on the dock, my dress pants rolled up to the knee with my feet dangling in the cool water’s edge of our lake. Each swirl of my toe sent ripples cascading deeper into the lake.
