attention on her, like she always does. “You two.” She looks between Edge and I. “You two stormed over here on a mission.” She starts giggling harder. “I half expected to see you both burst out into a run and hop onto the table.”
“We weren’t that bad.” Edge mutters making the girls start laughing harder.
“The only thing you two didn’t do was beat your chests.” Stacey chuckles.
“Or pee in a circle around the table.” Kealy hiccups.
“Don’t give them any ideas.” Stace drawls. She looks between me and Edge and raises her eyebrow. “You guys are ridiculous. We could’ve easily,” she looks between us again, “and politely, I might add, turned them away.”
I give her a bright smile. “And thanks to us you didn’t have to.”
“I’m still wearing my wedding dress. Plus a wedding ring.” She holds up her left hand right in my face. “Seriously honey, they would’ve caught on sooner or later.”
“Kea isn’t. So, it’s still a good thing that we happened along.” I shrug and take a sip of my beer.
“Happened my ass.” My gorgeous wife mumbles out of the corner of her mouth.
Kealy snorts. “They would’ve figured out pretty quickly that I had absolutely no interest in them. I’ve perfected the art of making sure I get left alone.”
“She has a point.” Stacey nods her head. “That dude when we were at the mall figured out pretty damn fast that hitting on you was useless.”
Both girls start to laugh about how quickly he walked off. Me? I’m watching Edge trying to keep his mouth shut and not ask questions. Damn, I’d feel sorry for him, if his misery wasn’t so damn entertaining. I mean, eventually, I’m going to repay the favor and help him get the girl like he did for me all those months ago. But it won’t hurt anything to watch him suffer for another month…or so.
He sees me looking at him and narrows his eyes, almost like he can tell what I’m thinking. When he flips me off, I start to realize that either I have a horrible poker face. Or him and I spend way too much time together.
I make sure to give him the world’s biggest shit eating grin and raise my shot glass to him. “Good luck buddy.” I toss the shot back and barely hold in my grimace.
Kealy looks over at him confused. “What is he wishing you good luck on? Are you going to gamble or something?” She blinks up innocently at him.
Stacey snuggles into my side and I can feel her body shake with laughter. Kealy really has no fucking idea the power that she has over him.
Edge looks down at her with a gleam in his eyes. “Something like that. It’ll definitely be a huge gamble, but the payoff? It’s somethin’ that I don’t deserve but want more than anything else. It’ll be worth the risk.”
The End
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