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“I’ll have some of that,” Kitty said, having him top her whiskey off.
“I taught you better than that,” Bastien said. “Use the regular Jack Daniels if you’re going to do that.”
“It’s my honeymoon and I’ll drink what I want,” Kitty said primly.
“About that...” Bastien started and then took a deep pull of his drink. “What the absolute fuck is going on and why are you and the girls here?”
“Jace and I eloped.” She showed him her wedding ring. “I couldn’t take all the bullshit from the wedding planner and the pressure to have everything perfect, so I said screw it and flew out here and kidnapped Jace.”
“That’s where he’s been the last three days? You could have told me. I’ve just spent the past few days trying to hunt him down. I even hired a private detective.” Who told Bastien more than he’d ever wanted to know about the woman he had been planning on getting serious with.
Bastien rubbed his hand over his face. “Does Mom know?”
“Not yet. I mean, she knows I flew out for my bachelorette party. She just doesn’t know there was a change of plans. I know how much that makes you crazy.” She patted his arm. “But it just seemed like the right thing to do.”
“Mom and Dad paid a lot of money for your wedding.”
“Yeah, it’s the wedding of their dreams. I barely had a say in it. Don’t worry. We’ll still show up and go through the costume party. Now, I feel like I can relax because all the important stuff has been taken care of.”
“Why didn’t you tell me? I would have liked to have been there for the actual ceremony.”
“It was a quick civil ceremony on the beach in Key West. It lasted all of five minutes and then we partied the night away before coming back here this morning. Mikelina arranged everything. I don’t know what I would have done without her.”
“What?” Bastien choked on his drink.
“Yeah, I invited her to come over tonight to help us celebrate.”
“Here? Tonight?” Bastien couldn’t suppress the happy leap his stupid heart took. He wanted to see her and talk about all of this. He had jumped to the wrong conclusions and he should have taken a step back and listened to her. He hoped she could forgive him.
“You can’t get mad at her.”
Too late.
“I asked her to keep all of this a secret from you. She didn’t want to do it, but I begged her.”
“Why?”
“I was afraid that you would tell Mom or Dad and that they would try to stop us.”
“You’re adults. They can’t stop you.”
“Yeah, well, I didn’t want to hear it. I just wanted to let loose and have fun. Do you even remember what that’s like?”
“I remember,” he said hoarsely.
“But that’s not the best part. She sold us this house.” Kitty gestured all around her. “Can you believe it? This is our house.” She got up and threw herself at Jace.
Holy shit. Why hadn’t Mikelina told him? Why did she let him rant and rail at her without defending herself? She hadn’t lied. She wasn’t the owner anymore. It had been Kitty and Jace. The private investigator had old information, probably because the deal was going down as he was gathering information. Bastien had jumped to all the wrong conclusions. He had let what Gina had done to him color how he saw Mikelina and that wasn’t right at all.
He needed to talk to her. But when he texted her, the message never delivered and when he dialed her number, it just kept ringing. She’d blocked his number. He couldn’t blame her.
“Bastien, what’s wrong?”
“I made a terrible mistake.”
“Is it about Mikelina?” Kitty asked.
Bastien gave her a sharp look. “Why do you think it has anything to do with her?”
