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He answers the phone and grumbles out a curse. When he sets the phone back down, I start to giggle.
His eyes find mine. “What’s so funny?”
I shake my head.
“Just … what are the odds of that happening?”
“Slim,” he says with a grin.
I flip the covers off and head for the bathroom.
“Time to get ready, King. We have a show to put on.”
I duck into the bathroom.
And after the moment we just had, I have a hunch we are going to be extra believable today.
Today’s agenda required us to have breakfast with the company on the beach, which has led to everyone still lounging under the sun in our bathing suits, listening to the waves crash in front of us.
Most of the wives have been pretty engaged in conversation, and it’s clear a lot of them work on different foundations together.
Camry, though, is reading a book, like me.
Thank goodness I wasn’t the only one who wanted to relax on this trip.
The guys have been talking work since the moment the food was taken away.
Camry flips another page, but from the corner of my eye, I see her lower her paperback.
“Do you think they all held it in last night?” she asks just loud enough for me to hear.
“What?”
“Last night, at dinner, not a single word of work and now today, nonstop chatter. How many of them were holding it in?”
“Definitely that weasel Marcus,” I say under my breath, but clearly not quietly enough. Camry erupts into such loud laughter that everyone stops talking to look at us.
My heart begins to race.
Preston’s eyes meet mine, and he takes a step toward me just as Camry says, “Weasel. God, why didn’t I think of that first? He’s so it. I like you.”
I swallow, finally, and shake my head at Preston and wave my hand for him to stop.
I’m good, I mouth over the heads of the other wives.
You promise?, he mouths back.
I nod and then grin.
He grins back.
“My gosh, look at the two of you,” Anthony’s wife, Andrea, says. “Was he coming to check on you?”
“He tried,” I say as I watch him walk back to join the guys.
He stripped his shirt off about an hour ago so that he’s just in his swim trunks, and I’m not mad about it.
His ripped back is also unreal.
