Oops, Wrong Bride? Fine. No Wedding. novel · Chapter 6 of 24

Chapter 6: The Wrong One

"You married the wrong one," I repeated.

"I know how it sounds."

"It sounds like something you should tell your wife."

Trey stood up on the top step. He'd been crying, really crying. His dimples looked lost without the grin.

Behind him the loft door opened and Emmy came out onto the landing, flour to the elbows, Biscuit hopping after her on three legs.

She looked at Trey and then down at me.

"Want me to push him?"

"Not yet."

Down by the truck, Hayes had stopped with one hand on the open door. He didn't come closer. He didn't leave either.

Trey came down two steps toward me.

"She's not who I thought, Liza. She films everything. She filmed me in the shower. She has a ring light in the bathroom."

"That sounds like a you problem."

"She told me you'd laugh," he said. "She said you'd think it was funny. That you were a good sport about everything, and it'd be this big viral moment, and you'd be fine."

"Did I look fine?"

He flinched.

"No," he said. "You looked like my mother looked when my dad died."

That landed somewhere I didn't want it to.

I shoved it down.

"Then why did you do it, Trey?"

"Because everybody was already in on it." He spread his hands. "Shelby, and your dad, and..."

"My dad."

"He picked the date," Trey said. "He said May sixteenth was good because the church was free and you'd already have everything booked. He paid for the license himself. Drove us down to the courthouse in his Lexus."

I stood very still at the bottom of the stairs.

"He drove you."

"He bought us lunch after." Trey laughed miserably. "He said it was the happiest day of his life."

Up on the landing, Emmy said a word I'd never heard her use.

I reached into the back pocket of my jeans.

I'd been carrying it all week because I didn't know what else to do with it.

My engagement ring. A diamond solitaire his mother had picked out.

I walked up the steps, took Trey's hand, turned it palm up and set the ring in it.

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