“I’ll skin him if he didn’t,” she warned and Lacey laughed harder as Kacey parked. She knew he didn’t like the brown tweed jacket she had picked out, but it went with her outfit perfectly. They were going to be adorable.
“Well, don’t get your hopes up. He said he’s gonna wear something else.”
“Oh, I should have known when he said he’d meet me here he was going to mess this up. I swear he does it because he loves seeing me angry.”
Lacey giggled. “Probably.”
Getting out of the car, she locked it as she started for the spot under a maple tree that Harper had instructed. She didn’t see Jordie’s truck, but then she wasn’t looking. She was a tad bit late and needed to hurry, but as she turned to go around the car, she stopped dead in her tracks.
“Let me call you back.”
“What’s wrong? Why are you talking like that?”
“I just ran into Liam. Bye,” she said and then hung up before putting a big smile on her face. He was sweating, and as she took in the shorts and sweatshirt, she figured he had been running. “Hey, out for a run?”
She didn’t know how she’d forgotten that he loved to run out here, but then, she really didn’t think of Liam much. They hadn’t spoken in months, but yet, he smiled, his perfect jawline moving as he slowly nodded.
“Yeah, funny seeing you here.”
She smiled. “I’m meeting Jordie here for a couple pictures for our house,” she said, and she didn’t miss his grimace. But she wouldn’t act as if she weren’t with Jordie. She was too happy to do that.
“Yeah, he posts about you all the time. I see that he tags you in everything,” he said and Kacey nodded as a grin pulled at her lips.
“Yes, my boyfriend is a Facebook whore now. It’s kind of embarrassing.”
He shrugged. “I think it’s great. I’m happy that it’s working out for you two.”
“Thanks,” she said, shocked. The way things had ended, she would have been sure he was five seconds from getting a voodoo doll and practicing on her.
“So you two aren’t married yet?”
Her hands came up to her belly as she smiled. “Not yet, but we are expecting.”
He grinned as he looked down, her little belly between her two hands. “You look beautiful, Kacey. I’m really happy for you.”
“Thank you. And you?”
“I got engaged three weeks ago,” he said with a grin and she scoffed.
“Well, I guess both of us weren’t really in it, huh?”
He shrugged. “I guess not, but I am sorry for how it all ended. That was rude of me, what I said. I was just mad.”
“It’s cool. I forgave you a long time ago,” she said, reaching out to cup his elbow. “I’m just glad you are happy.”
“Me too, for you too,” he said and she grinned up at him.
“Okay, well, it was great seeing you. I won’t wish you luck tomorrow at the game ’cause I want you to lose,” she said with a wink, sidestepping out of his way. “But I gotta go do these pictures.”
He laughed as he waved to her. “It was great seeing you. Good luck.”
She smiled as thanks before heading toward where she was supposed to meet them. That was actually okay. She had thought it would be awkward, but she was glad that she could see Liam and have it be cool. Rushing toward the spot, she saw Harper first, her hair purple this time and shaved up the side as she took various pictures. What surprised her was that Elli was there, a camera around her neck, both of them taking pictures of Jordie as he stood like a model. While he was wearing the brown tweed jacket, he was not wearing anything else she had bought for him. Instead of the nice shirt with a tie and brown slacks, he was wearing a blue button-up shirt with no tie and the first few buttons open. His black slacks complemented his brown dress shoes, but still. It wasn’t what she had picked out. Even if he did look downright sinful, he still drove her insane.
When he tucked a hand into his pocket, looking at the camera, the fingers of his other hand resting lightly on the rim of his sunglasses, she couldn’t help it, she snorted with laughter.
She caught his attention and he grinned as he came toward her. Elli and Harper turned and smiled too as he took her in