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She took a deep breath. “I have to do this for my mom, Vee.”
“There are other options.”
“What options?” She exploded. “I’ve been denied loans, we can’t remortgage the house a third time, and I barely make enough money to pay for the house and food. I have no family to ask for money and I’m not going to like, start stripping to pay for it or anything. Remember that pole dancing class we took? I looked like a baby deer pretending to be a firefighter.”
I tried to fight the smile off her face, but I couldn’t. I finally laughed and nodded.
“Right, so stripping isn’t an option,” I grinned. “But marrying a guy you met a couple days ago? That’s not a good idea, Lacie.”
“I…”. She looked away and took a deep breath. “I kind of want to.”
“You want to marry Maddox?”
“I know it’s insane, and I know that it doesn’t make sense and we only just met a couple days ago. I know it’s probably a terrible idea for a zillion reasons, but—”
I held up her hand and Lacie stopped talking. I wrapped my arms around my best friend and squeezed her close. If Carter had asked me to marry him last night, after all the craziness that had gone on and the way I was feeling about him, I might have said yes, too.
“I get it,” I said. “As long as you want to, and you’re not just doing this because you feel like you have to.”
“I do want to,” Lacie squeaked, sniffling as her eyes started to mist. “It sounds crazy—”
“I get it,” I replied. I pulled away, putting my hands on her shoulders. “I’ve met someone, too, and—”
“Carter,” Lacie interrupted.
It was my turn to blush. I grinned at Lacie. I wanted to tell her about Seth, but she seemed so happy, and I didn’t know what would happen if I told her. I’d tell her later, when she wasn’t buzzing off her engagement to a rock star.
“Now we just need Morgan to hook up with Garrett and we’ll be all set.” I finally said.
“Yeah, right.” Lacie replied. “It’s one thing for you and I to do something like this, but Morgan is way too straight-laced.”
“I don’t know,” I said, grinning. “I thought I heard something in the hallway at The Morning Show the other day.”
Lacies’ cheeks flushed. “That was probably me,” she laughed.
Looks like I hadn’t been the only one getting freaky that day.
I shrugged. “Didn’t sound like you.”
“You think she and Garrett…?”
“I mean, you’re getting freaking married, so nothing would surprise me now.”
Lacie was getting married to the drummer, Morgan was hooking up with lead singers in the studio hallways, and I was trying to get rid of my creepy ex while falling head over heels for the bassist in the same band.
What a mess. A beautiful, sexy, insane mess.
Chapter 20 - Carter
By the time we got back to LA, everything with Veronica’s ex seemed to have blown over. We checked the papers every day to make sure that nothing had been leaked to the press, and it looked like we were going to get away without a huge media backlash.
That was good news, because the Grammys were the next day, and a lot was riding on our performance. Doing well at this show would mean a solid start to our album launch and upcoming tour.
Spending three nights with Vee beside me made it that much harder to sleep on my own when we got back. When I got home, Maddox disappeared to his end of the mansion and I slumped on the couch. I pulled out my phone and dialed Bill’s number.
“Hi, Carter,” my lawyer answered.
“Any news?”
