On the Rocks by Steiner Kandi

Author:Steiner, Kandi [Steiner, Kandi]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Kandi Steiner
Published: 2019-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

Noah

I didn’t know if my plan was working, or if I was just setting myself up for a massive fail.

Logan had high-fived me when all of my brothers and I got together to play cards at my place Sunday night. I told him how it went at the nursing home, how Ruby Grace had agreed to be friends, to let me help her with the wedding, and how we’d spent the entire afternoon together.

I had to admit, at the time I high-fived my little brother and simultaneously got a glare from my older one, I was on a high. It’d been easier than I thought to get her to agree to still spend time with me — even with her fiancé in town — and I’d spent an entire afternoon with her. Even better, I’d spent an entire afternoon with her in her element. She thrived at that nursing home, and everyone there loved her. They could tell she was different. She cared. She gave a shit.

I was convinced that people like her made up not even one percent of the entire population. She was just too good, too kind, too giving. It was like she’d strip herself bare if it meant she could shelter even one other person.

So, yes, that first night had felt great.

But now, five days later, I was beginning to wonder if I was the biggest idiot to ever exist.

On Monday, I worked all day at the distillery and then met Ruby Grace for dinner. Her mother had tasked her with booking the rehearsal dinner venue, and Ruby Grace looked like she was about to have a complete meltdown trying to decide on a place that would fit and please everyone.

Then, on Tuesday, I’d been half asleep on my couch after a long day at work when she called me and asked if she could come over. She showed up with chalkboard signs in hand and an apologetic shrug. We stayed up until almost one in the morning making welcome signs and seat yourself signs and cocktail hour this way signs and gifts here signs. Chalk dust clouded my living room by the end of the night, but hugging a sleepy Ruby Grace goodbye on my front porch made up for it.

I’d thought I’d be relieved to hear I wouldn’t see her Wednesday, but instead, I was gutted when I saw her at the nicest restaurant in town on my walk home from the gym — seated next to Anthony in a cozy little booth, him feeding her a fork full of decadent dessert while she giggled and the cameras around them flashed.

And now it was Thursday, and here I was, circling yet another rack of expensive dinnerware at some fancy department store I couldn’t pronounce the name of. I had a register gun in my hand, a fake smile on my face, and a knack for pretending like I had any shot in hell of waking up the girl holding the gun next to me and convincing her she was making the wrong choice.

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