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“You’re not going to say you can’t wait to share the first dance with me?” she asked.
I barked a laugh. That sounded like me. “Nah. I’ll let Weston have that. I’m going to be busy dancing with my own girl.”
Surprisingly, I was really looking forward to it too.
Chapter Fifteen
Daisy
I had no clue how Miles and Weston came from the same parents. If I didn’t know they were brothers, I never would’ve guessed. Weston was a couple inches taller, and his build was on the leaner side. Miles was more broad, with heavier muscles. Weston had light brown hair with some blond highlights, while Miles’ was chestnut brown. Their hazel eyes and sharp jawline were the only similarities I could find between them.
It wasn’t just in their looks where they differed.
Miles was a bright ball of energy, while Weston kept himself tightly locked down. I had a feeling he was similar to me—slow to trust, wary of intentions, but once someone was in with them, they were in for life.
For that reason, I didn’t find his reticence off-putting, but I did wonder how he and Miles had turned out so differently.
Weston cleared his throat. “Your family owns the Dunham funeral home?”
“Yes.” I braced myself for what came next.
He nodded tightly. “I’ve been there several times. It’s nice for what it is.”
“Thanks. My parents take a lot of pride in it.”
“You don’t want to go into the family business?”
“I don’t. My brother-in-law works with my dad on his end of things, and my sister assists our mom part-time. They’ll take it over when the time comes. I help out when they need me, and I keep their website running, but I don’t want to die in the same place I grew up.”
“That makes sense. I never had an interest in joining my father in his business ventures. Then again, he had a tendency to run his investments into the ground.”
Ahead of us, Elise and Miles were having an animated discussion. With how at ease they were, I wondered how long they had known each other.
“You’re not the type of woman Miles has brought around in the past,” Weston stated.
“No? We haven’t done a lot of talking about our past partners—”
“Forgive me, but I wouldn’t call anyone I’ve seen Miles with a partner. They were…distractions. Acts of rebellion. Definitely not a partner.”
“Distractions from what?”
Weston rubbed his scruff and peered at his brother’s back, an enigmatic smile curling the corners of his mouth. “That’s something I have yet to uncover. The root is probably our shit upbringing, but my brother doesn’t talk to me, so I wouldn’t know the rest.”
“He doesn’t talk to you?” I found that hard to believe. From what I’d seen, Miles had never met a stranger. He could talk to a brick wall and be happy.
“Not about anything real. We’re doing better, though. Getting there,” he gruffed. “Having Elise around helps. He likes her a lot more than me.”
I huffed a laugh, doubting that. “Have they known each other long?”
“He didn’t tell you?”
“He’s shared a lot, but not those kinds of details.”
“Ah…well, I’ve been friends with Elise and her brother Elliot since early childhood. Miles and Elise got to know each other in high school. He was a major dick to her, but he’s managed to win her forgiveness in the last couple years.”
“I hope she made him work his ass off.”
He chuckled. “She didn’t make it easy.”
