The Wedding

rite red heels, feeling jittery from coffee, and carrying a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne in

on the e

ng than most people. It didn’t matter that Olivia had just ma

t about to get

umber of her sister’s floor, the laughter calming her nerves. Alexa couldn’t wait to celebrate with her

or the third time to make sure she’d tossed the fancy crackers and Brie in there. They would need a pre-dinner snack to soak up

tucked away from the heavy champagne bottle. Just then, the el

?” she said out

ayed motionless. She looked up and around, and jumped to see

this whole ti

enie?” He grinn

hair, and about a day’s worth of scruff where a beard would be. She had a sudden urge to rub her hand on h

what a genie would say?” he asked. “

u going to bust us out of here with

lau

ver know if I’m a

she said. “Being inside that tiny machine

e my powers.” He moved to the front of the

an give us an ETA on

ortunity to check out his butt in his perfectly fitted jeans. It was as good as

t. No, it was being stuck in an elevator with a hot guy that was the unusual part. She was always the one sitting on

“Okay . . . okay,” in progressivel

at her. “Wait, I don’t even know y

and you,

e to meet

a pleasure

deal. So, the bad news is that there’

just then with a

nt out. Whe

to that.” Alexa held her phone

I’m stuck in

id. “The good news, or so they tell me, is that they have

purse gently beside her. It would be a

ite red heels were relatively comfortable for the first

his stomach muscles as his gray T-shirt shifted. Mmmm. Hot, f

Where are you coming from?” she

L.A. And you?” He s

n Berkeley, anyway. I’m just i

phone, her shoes,

all of that smiling you were doing when you didn’t e

wider. “Wait, no, not that kind of special someone! M

d hot guys. Scared to make eye contact, s

k it was that kind of special someone. Do y

p dress so she didn’t accidentally flash her un

irm!” Alexa smiled down at her purse full of treats before look

is eyes were so pretty that she looked away again. Thank God her brown skin meant he

what is in that bag? You keep lookin

laug

ampagne here and then go out to dinner . . . Well, that was t

d him, so he could see better in the dim light. She never let people poke

so convenient because no corkscrew is needed, and then we’ve got . . . Oh,

against the wo

a variety of snacks and been able to determine w

cheese, so we won’t need a knife to cut it; we can just use the crackers to pull off bits and spread it with our fingers. And second, h

dered for

said. “You know the answer is no. Cheese and

his fingers away fro

ge to talk me into sharing Olivia’s you-made-p

long the floor and took ano