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“Excuse me, but you grew apart from him.”
“I’m in love with Chad, and I’m marrying him. He’s good to me.”
“So was Rhys. Correction. He was great to you.”
Macie and I were in a stare-down. We’d had them before. This time, she looked away before I did, sipped her wine, and then focused back on me.
“Let’s do something that we haven’t done in a long while,” she said, her eyes serious now.
“Such as?”
“Go see Ms. Lenora.”
I looked at Rachel, and she wiggled her perfectly arched brows at me. She wanted to visit the local mystic, too.
The three of us last saw her a week before I moved to Fort Worth. I hadn’t forgotten what she told me, either. She said, “Life takes all of us to unexpected places. It is love that brings us home.”
CH 3 - #memories
Rhys
Song: “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do” by Brantley Gilbert
“HEY! WHAT ARE you doing here?” I asked Jackson. He had stopped by one of our family’s B&Bs that I was getting ready for weekend renters.
“I wanted to let you know that Riley is in town.”
“You could’ve texted me.”
“Just giving you a heads-up, man. I figured it’d be shocking if you ran into her because you haven’t seen her since you two broke up.”
“I have seen her but didn’t tell you.”
Jackson jerked his head back in surprise. “When?”
“It was a couple of months ago at Blossom’s Florist. Riley, her momma, Rachel, and Macie were walking toward the entrance as I drove by. They didn’t see me, though. I guessed they were going there to pick out flowers for Riley’s wedding.”
“They were. Rachel told me what their plan was that day.”
I nodded. “Is Riley hanging out with her and Macie right now?”
“She is. They’re supposed to be ironing out the last of Riley’s wedding plans, plus figuring out where they’re going dress shopping tomorrow. They’ve already been twice, but Riley didn’t like any dresses she tried on.”
I glanced around the living room and let out a heavy sigh.
“Sorry. I shouldn’t have told you all that,” my brother said.
“No, it’s fine. It is what it fucking is.”
“Why don’t you meet me at Cheers and Beers later? We’ll blow off some steam.”
“What about Rachel? No hot date with her tonight?”
“Nope. Her sister and Macie have temporarily replaced me.”
“Then I’ll see you around nine o’clock.”
After Jackson left, I finished what I’d been doing and then made a final walk-through in B&B #8 to ensure everything was in place. As I was backing out of the driveway to go home, I remembered I was out of coffee and headed to the grocery store instead.
