Heartless by Sophie Stern

Author:Sophie Stern [Stern, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: bad boy, romance, romance bdsm, bdsm, erotic romance, friends to lovers
Publisher: Sophie Stern
Published: 2020-11-26T06:00:00+00:00

9

David

Three Months Later

The rehearsal dinner was only three months after Felix’s birthday party. It seemed wildly rushed, but nobody talked about the obvious elephant in the room. Was Lauren pregnant? Was that the reason they were having such a whirlwind wedding? Nobody wanted to ask. I probably should have manned up and popped the question. After all, Felix and I were best friends, but there were a lot of things Felix and I weren’t talking about lately.

For one thing, why hadn’t Felix’s little sister spoken to me since that day in the office? Neither one of us had mentioned it. Neither one of us had brought it up, but that was because I knew why.

We both knew why.

The problem was that it had been a giant misunderstanding that had caused Zoey to never want to see me again. Anytime I tried to bring her up, Felix just shook his head and told me he didn’t want to be involved. I got it. He wasn’t a mediator. It wasn’t his job to help Zoey and I find common ground to work out this problem.

It was his job to plan his wedding and take care of Lauren and make sure that everything went perfectly on her big day. The rehearsal dinner was to be held at a beautiful restaurant just a few blocks away from the church where the ceremony would take place. Lauren and Felix both wanted a church wedding, so they’d chosen the chapel where her parents had gotten married years ago. It was a cute little church, and it was a good choice for a wedding. It was idyllic in many ways.

The plan was to rehearse and then eat, which was probably a good idea. If we ate first, nobody would want to go to the church because we’d all be stuffed full of food, and possibly drunk. As it was, I only wished I was drinking.

Felix and I were the first to arrive at the church, and we sat outside while we waited for everyone else. The mood between us was solemn, teetering on excitement. I knew he was nervous. Felix pulled out a cigarette, lit it, and brought it to his lips.

“Smoking?” I asked. “Since when do you smoke?” It wasn’t something I’d ever seen him do before. In our friendship, I was always the naughty one, the edgy one. Felix was as straightlaced as they came.

“Since I have a lot on my mind,” he told me, shrugging. He looked away, as though he couldn’t bear to say what the problem was.

“A lot on your mind? Like what?”

This was it.

This was his opening to tell me that Lauren was preggers. We all knew it. It was totally obvious. He could just come out and say it, but instead, he shook his head. Chicken.

“Just the commitment,” he said.

Wait a minute...what?

“Are you trying to tell me you’ve got cold feet? Is this the part where I convince you to walk through those doors and seal the deal, my friend?” I could do that if he needed me to.

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