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n the middle of the hallway, and he was still holding my hips... and I was enjoying it. Jesus, I hadn't had a dry spell for a long time. More than two years. His fingers tightened a little mor
ut that man. I drank Anna's drink and went to the bar to refill her glass and get one for myself. "Do you remember when I was seventeen and I had a crush on Mr. Westbrook, the substitute English teacher?" "How could I forget? He was twenty-three and gorgeous." "Hunter... Well, I don't know what to think of him, to be honest. He's dirty, direct, insistent... and very sexy." "And gorgeous, financially secure, secure, and VERY sexy," Anna added. I sighed. "Yeah. All of that. But there's something about him... something I can't quite put my finger on... that makes him just as off-limits as Mr. Westbrook was." Anna's eyes flicked to my reflection in the mirror. "Really?" "Why are you smiling, silly?" "He's off-limits because he gives you butterflies." "No, he doesn't," I lied. I didn't even know why I was lying. Besides, the butterflies he gave me weren't the kind I usually felt in my stomach... These butterflies I felt a little lower down. "Yes, they did." "No, they didn't." "Then why not give in?" You just said you think he's hot. You were thinking about sleeping with Adam, and he's not nearly as hot as Hunter." I remembered his hands on my hips the night before, and the chill started to set in again. That feeling, combined with Anna's arguments, proved something I didn't want to accept. "I think he's too stuck-up." "You like stuck-up guys. In fact, all the guys you've dated have been stuck-up." "Exactly. Enough stuck-up guys." Anna gave a mischievous smile and said to the hairdresser, "I'm sure she'll go for it." He looked at me, then back at Anna. "Oh, she will." Derek and Anna got married on a cliff overlooking the ocean. Despite my disdain for marriage as an institution, I cried tears of joy. I noticed more than one groomsman with tears in his eyes, too. One in particular caught my attention. After the second time Hunter caught me gawking at how handsome he looked in his suit and slicked-back hair, I managed to avoid eye contact for the rest of the ceremony and the first hour of the reception. It wasn't easy, considering how close we were standing since we were both groomsmen. But I managed it. Until I was slow dancing with Anna's dad. "Can I