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Mom turns to look at me. “No, Amelia gave it to me.”
My brain stalls. “Amelia?”
“Yes.” Mom’s smiling, blissfully unaware of the shift in the room. “We had a lovely chat in the kitchen. About you men. Then she told me she loves me so much.” Her eyes well up with tears again. “I’m so happy you found her, Gage. I was worried you weren’t ever going to look for love again. Amelia is so much more than I could ever have hoped for. I know that’s why the angels are singing today. They’re happy for you too.”
I look at Hayden. “Why the fuck would Amelia give her an edible?” And where the fuck did she get it?
“She didn’t know it was an edible,” Hayden says. “That’s the other part of this. Amelia’s stoned too.”
The room goes silent.
My entire body fills with something cold. Controlled. Lethal.
“Where’s Tim?”
Ethan’s grin disappears. “Gage?—”
“Where. Is. Tim.”
Hayden steps forward, his hand coming up like he’s prepared to physically stop me. “He’s with the girls in the house. But you need to calm down first.”
“I’m calm.”
“You’re about to commit a crime.”
I clench my jaw. “Move out of my way.”
He doesn’t. “You’re getting married in a few hours. This is not the time to murder your brother-in-law.”
“Future brother-in-law,” Callan says. “Unless, of course, you murder him.”
Hayden shoots him a glare. “Not fucking helpful, Callan.”
Bradford steps in. “Hayden’s right. Leave Tim until after the wedding when you’ve calmed down. You need to go check on Amelia.”
That stops me.
Amelia.
Fuck.
My wife is stoned on our wedding day. Not something she’d ever want in a million fucking years.
“How bad is she?” I ask Hayden.
“Let’s just say she thinks the plants are judging her, that she’s in a committed relationship with the chair she’s sitting on, and that you’re going to be mad when you discover that Ryan Gosling’s soul has taken over her body.”
Jesus Christ.
“I will fucking kill him.”
“Yeah,” Hayden says, “and I’ll help. But after the wedding.”
I roll my neck and force myself to breathe. Then I nod. Not for Tim. Not for me. Forher. Amelia doesn’t need vengeance right now. She needs me.
CHAPTER 25
GAGE
