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But before I fully formulate my question, Drew reaches me, wraps his arms around my back, tugs me to his chest and plants his lips on mine. I’m so stunned that I freeze up, my eyes wide before I feel him nudge me in the thigh with his knee, urging me not to mess this up, I assume. So I do the last thing I ever thought I’d do. I close my eyes, snake my arms around his neck, and kiss my best friend back. I kiss him back hard.
“Oh,” Brielynne laughs sardonically, her grip on Julien tightening. “We’re not dating. We’re married. Have been for…,” she trails off, glancing up at Julien, her husband. “How long, darling? Five years now?” My stomach drops into my feet. My vision sways, likely because I just sucked in a giant rush of air and I’m holding it in tight. She eyes me hard with a very fake smile. “How do you know my husband again?”
The kind of woman you needed to be near without fully comprehending the fundamentals behind it. She got under my skin in this perfectly seemingly innocuous way. Like it was an unintentional blip in a universe categorically designed to fuck you up from within. And when everything fell apart with Aria, Margot became Switzerland, annoyingly neutral. Something I’m still grateful for.
“So, I’m planning to ask Aria to marry me,” Wes declares, the moment our asses hit plastic. I spit out my beer. Like it actually flies out of my mouth in a spray of gold that hits everything, and everyone, within a three-foot radius. I’m rewarded with the most malevolent glares from the poor bastards I showered, but what the fuck?! He had to say this shit in front of me at that exact moment? I mean, come on.

