Mine to Crave by Kameron Claire

Author:Kameron Claire [Claire, Kameron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Snuggle Whore Press, LLC

Chapter Six

Mari - Three weeks later…

“Ready?” I hand my best friend her bouquet of fall-colored flowers.

She nods, but her feet are firmly planted in place.

“What’s wrong?” I’ve been so busy running around as the de facto wedding planner that I haven’t had the time to be the best maid-of-honor possible for Cher today, and the death grip she has on me right now pulls my head back to the most important thing at hand—the bride. “Cher?”

“Tell me I’m not making a huge mistake,” she whispers so our voices won’t carry above the din of the crowd on the other side of the large, vacuous building. There are six-foot dividers and approximately sixty yards separating us from the rest of the party, where wedding guests anxiously await the bride.

“What?” I shake my head, trying not to think of the two dozen people waiting for our grand entrance. At this point, everyone has found their seats and Vale is standing at the front with Kemp by his side.

Oh, Kemp. I can’t think about his sexy ass right now.

“Are you having second thoughts?” I whisper back.

“Yes. No. I don’t know.” She shakes her head, a rogue tear falling down her perfectly painted face. “I love him. I know I do. But this has happened so fast, and what if I’m making a huge mistake?”

I glance down at her relatively flat belly. “That ship has sailed, don’t you think?”

She chuckles as another rogue tear falls.

I turn to a nearby table and grab an unopened box of tissues. “When did you start having these doubts?”

“Five minutes ago.”

“Not last night, or this morning, or a week ago when his family came into town?”

Cher shakes her head, making the red tendrils of her updo bounce against her cheek. “No. Up until five minutes ago, I was absolutely positive this is what I wanted.”

I smile, pulling a tissue out of the box and dabbing her cheeks. “It’s just nerves, babe. That’s all. Vale is a guy born of fairy tales. He’s damn near perfect and desperately in love with you. If you haven’t been having doubts all along, then I say get your ass out there and grab your happily ever after.”

She takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly while nodding her agreement. “You’re right. Of course, you are right.”

“Of course I am.” I toss my high ponytail over my shoulder and give her a sassy bat of my eyelashes. “So, am I walking my sexy ass out there or not?”

“Start stepping.” She gives me a real smile.

“You’ll be thirty seconds behind me, right?”

“Yes.”

I walk around the partition and signal the DJ to play our entrance song. Cher’s father, Richard, approaches from his perch ten feet away with Sookie in her flower girl harness and leash at his side. I take her lead and accept a kiss from him—I’ve known the man since middle school—before starting my walk down the twenty-foot light gray runner I rented from the party supply store.

Everyone coos as Sookie prances, the overflowing baskets tied to her harness throwing flowers haphazardly to the ground.

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