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“I thought you’d never say something, I’ve been looking for an excuse to get out of here. Weddings are great, but only to a point. I’d rather be tucked up in bed with you than eating some wedding cake. Come on, baby, let me take a quick trip to the restroom, then we’ll get out of here.”

Leaving Lily to say her goodbyes to Holly, Brett and the rest of the bridesmaids, I headed out to relieve myself in the nearest restroom.

“Well, well, well. How does it feel to know you’re the one she settled for and not her first choice of guy?”

“Excuse me?” I muttered, scowling at a guy that took me a few seconds to place.

“Ah, I think you got that wrong… Matt isn’t it?”

“Max,” he corrected. I knew his fucking name, but I wouldn’t have given him the satisfaction of knowing that small detail.

“Lily would never have chosen you. And I’m confident that she likely fucked you but was thinking of me at the time. She knew I couldn’t commit, not the why of it all, but just that I couldn’t. That’s the only reason she hooked up with you. It was a hookup, right?” It was a toss away comment because although I as seething, I would never have shown that prick what was going on inside of me right then.

“Dude, I was there,” he insisted.

“Yeah, you were, and I was there before, and after. Ask her yourself, she was with you to hit back at me because I’d alreadytold her we couldn’t be anything more. You were nothing but a rebound fuck.”

“I suppose you’d need to tell yourself that,” Max concluded, over my shoulder.

I deliberately turned and pissed on his shoes.

“What the hell,” he growled as he jumped back. I shook myself off, put my dick in my pants and turned to face him. Max lifted his fist, like he was going to hit me. I caught his wrist and pushed him roughly back against the restroom wall.

“I don’t know what you’re trying to achieve here. Weren’t you with some woman and a kid out there?” I ground out through clenched teeth. “Maybe she’d be interested to know you’re in here trying to… I don’t really know what the fuck you’re trying to achieve hitting me up like this.”

“Alfie are you still in there?” Lily called out, instantly cooling my jets.

“Just a sec,” I replied.

I placed my hand on Max’s forehead and pressed his head hard up against the wall, then spoke in a low, menacing tone. “If I so much as hear my wife’s name come out of your dirty mouth again, I’ll beat the living fuck out of you. Lily was a kid that made a mistake with you, she said so herself. Now, you need to forget you ever knew my wife if you know what’s good for you.” I lifted my head back and head butted him.

Max’s eyes widened. His face instantly paled as I pushed away from him. “Fuck,” he muttered, his hand immediately cradled the back of his head.

“Go take care of your woman, asshole, and leave us the fuck alone.”

CHAPTER 64

LILY

“All set?” Alfie asked as he came up behind me and placed a protective hand on the small of my back.

I glanced up at his face through the mirror, hair still slightly wet from our morning shower and sighed. My heart still fluttered with a little spark of excitement whenever his focus was fully on me. “How come you get more handsome with age every day? It’s criminal. You don’t have one gray hair in sight yet.”

“Plenty of sex. Sex keeps me young,” he murmured so close to my ear a shiver ran down my smile. He pressed a light kiss to my temple, then met my gaze in the mirror again.

I laughed. “Maybe that’s true. Your one-track mind is so busy working on your fantasies that your body forgets to mark the passing of time.”

“I’ve aged a lot in the past couple of years. You’re the timeless one between us. You get more beautiful every year.”

“You’re just saying that. What if you’re not that into me after I have the baby?”

“Seeing your body change with my baby inside you turns me on. It’s so fucking sexy.

“And after?”

“Your body will be even better. It might even bear the marks to remind me that you carried our baby inside you. Oh, and I can guarantee when the baby gets here, I’ll still be excited to have your body all to myself again.”

“But what if?—”