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“I guess I should be congratulating you, shouldn’t I?” I said to Maddox. He glanced at Lacie and his eyes widened.
“You told her?”
Lacie shrugged. “One of my faults, I guess. Veronica knows everything.”
Carter frowned. “What’s going on?”
Lacie cheeks flushed and she glanced at Maddox. Carter looked at me, then Lacie, then Maddox. He had a cute little confused expression on his face, and my heart thumped in my chest. A grin spread over Maddox’s lips and he put his hand on Carter’s shoulder.
“I’m getting married.”
Carter frowned. “To who?”
“To me,” Lacie said, laughing as she blushed.
No one said anything. The room was deathly still, and then Carter started chuckling. Once he started, none of us could resist. All four of us leaned on each other and laughed until tears streamed down our faces.
“Well, congratulations, I guess,” Carter said. “Am I the best man, or what?”
“Yeah,” Maddox laughed. “You are, you presumptuous bastard.”
I glanced at Lacie. She grinned and nodded. “And you’ll be my maid of honor.”
”Monday morning, at the courthouse,” Maddox said.
“I’ll be there,” Carter said, shaking his hand. Then, he walked up to me and kissed me softly. I looked at his face and shot him a questioning glance, but he just shook his head.
I’ll tell you later, he seemed to be saying.
Garrett got to the hotel a couple minutes later. When he walked into the room, his face was darker than usual. Carter shifted in his seat and put his hand on my thigh. Something was wrong, and we could all feel it.
“Everything okay, Garrett?” Maddox asked. Garrett slumped into the makeup chair and grunted.
“Yeah, everything’s fine,” he said. “Just got a lot on my mind.”
“You checked our gear at the Staples Centre?”
“Yeah, it’s all fine, we’ll do a final check before we go on but it should be good to go.”
Maddox and Carter nodded. Lacie started on Garrett’s makeup. Carter and I exchanged a glance, and then I got up and started taking pictures. This was the perfect opportunity for some great behind-the-scenes pictures. I’d just have to make sure Garrett didn’t look too angry in them. Morgan had posted some of my photos from New York to the band’s social media pages, and they’d gotten fantastic responses. I knew these would be the same.
We were all quiet, with Carter and Maddox lounging and Lacie and I working. Garrett’s phone rang.
“Miss me already, do you?” Garrett said as he answered
My eyebrows shot up towards my hairline. I glanced at Lacie, whose eyes had widened. It had to be Morgan. Had to be!
“What?” I mouthed. Lacie was close enough to hear what Garrett was saying, and maybe even the person on the other end of the line. I saw her struggle to keep her face steady. She shrugged.
“I didn’t send them to her,” Garrett said to the phone. His voice was calm, but there was an undercurrent of anger. “She blindsided me.”
What was he talking about? Something was wrong. I looked at Carter, who had stiffened in his chair. He was trying to look casual, but I knew he was listening to Garrett’s conversation as intently as I was.
“I’ll handle it,” Garrett growled. He hung up the phone and pushed himself out of the chair.
“Good enough,” he grunted. “I think I’m pretty enough now,” he said to me, and I stepped back.
“Okay,” Lacie said. “I was almost done anyways.” She took a step back, wide-eyed and stiff.
