Better vs. Worse by Mary E Thompson

Author:Mary E Thompson [Thompson, Mary E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mary E Thompson

For the second time in less than a month, I was at a wedding as a guest. It was downright painful to sit there, but Braden was a good guy.

Ada performed the ceremony flawlessly, her voice carrying over the simple landscape that finally looked normal again. Kiki had the insurance money and had fixed everything on site. The plants were the last of the repairs, bringing Opposites Attract back to the beautiful place she carefully created when she found the little house with the big backyard for sale years ago. The tsunami knocked us down, but we weren’t out.

I was proud as hell of my sister and the world she created. She gave people everything they wanted, something Braden mentioned during our surf lesson. Lynn didn’t have family so she wanted a wedding that could be truly about them. It was expensive, but she insisted they have a wedding in paradise that would let her forget all the things she didn’t have.

Kiki gave that to her.

The reception was small, only about fifteen people including me. Bistro tables were scattered around a stone patio I helped Kiki put in two summers ago when she got sick of renting a dance floor and having it destroy her grass. The stones had just enough texture to prevent falls, but not so much that it caught or ruined dresses that hung to the ground.

I never understood why women wore dresses that long for an outdoor wedding, but I wasn’t the wedding planner.

I stood on the other side of the bar talking to Alvin and watching the wedding party. Mostly friends, but a few people that appeared to be family moved around, dragging tables together when they wanted to sit with a bigger group. I sipped the beer I had while Alvin chatted up one of the single women.

Ada moved through the crowd like she was one of them. Her dress, long and flowing and a light blue color that made her hazel eyes look like ice, stretched out behind her as she walked.

I couldn’t help but watch her. She was like a flame, and I was the dumb moth who wanted to get closer. Always closer. I knew she’d burn me, but in that moment, I didn’t care.

She was stunning. The reason I avoided so many of the weddings Kiana put on. I went to some of the first ones, but seeing Ada laugh and flirt with the other men had me ready to knock the shit out of all of them.

I wanted to go. I needed to go. It would only end badly if I stuck around. But then she turned and caught my eye.

A challenge.

Silent, but clear in her arched eyebrow and twinkling damn eyes.

She wanted me to be jealous.

I growled at no one and set off across the open space. Her eyes widened for a second, then that damn smirk curled her lips up, and I knew I was screwed.

She held her ground, waiting for me to reach her. She was smiling at a guy sitting at the table she was standing near.

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