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again, she highly doubted Rain was interested in playing matchmaker for
anybody.
    “Me, too.”
    The difference
between them was Rain liked it that way. Daphne was pretty happy with her
single life, but it would be nice to have a relationship that worked out with a
guy she had more than lukewarm feelings for. She had this problem—she
never wanted the ones who wanted her. Well, more like she never wanted the ones
who were serious about her. Some might call her picky. She knew herself well
enough to know what she wanted and loved herself enough to believe she deserved
to get it. Call it whatever you want.
    “Yeah,” she
said. “I don’t even know who I’m going to take to this wedding.” Destination
weddings were tricky. She couldn’t bring some random guy—it would be
awkward since they’d be there together for at least a few days. That was too
serious of a thing for someone she hadn’t known long. The wedding was a little
over two months away, and she didn’t even have a prospect for one lousy dinner
date.
    “What about
me?”
    “Huh?” She did
a double take.
    He looked as if
he was adjusting to the idea as well. “Yeah, I mean, why not?” he said. “I was
just thinking. I’m going , you’re
going . We’re old friends. Why not go together?”
    “Why?” she
blurted out before she could even think about it.
    “What do you
mean?”
    “Why would you
go to the wedding? I mean , I know you guys were
friends, but she’s technically an ex-girlfriend. And you had really strong
feelings for her at one point. Are you sure going to this wedding is really
something you want to do?”
    He nodded.
“I’ve thought about all of that.” He paused. Pressing his forearms against the
edge of the table, he leaned forward. “I’ve also thought about what it would be
like if I wasn’t there. I think I’d always regret it.” He smiled faintly. “So.
How about it? Can I be your plus one?”
    She grinned.
She absolutely could not go to another wedding dateless. It was getting kind of
old. And a little pathetic. Especially since she was
among the very last dregs of her single friends. Of what was left of her single
friends, most of them were at least dating someone seriously. Her cousins and
even her nieces and nephews of dating age were mostly paired off. Thank
goodness Bettina was still single. She was one of the few, though. No. No more
weddings as poor single Daphne, let’s find her someone to dance with so she
doesn’t look so alone.
    “Sure,” she
said.
    “Great. Have
you bought your plane ticket yet?” he asked.
    “Yeah.”
    “Give me the
flight information. I’ll try to get on the same flight.”
    “Okay, I’ll
email it to you.” She pulled out her phone so that she could get to her email
and forward Rain the info before she forgot to do it.
    Yeah. Like she
was going to forget. Going to Puerto Rico with gorgeous Rain was something to
definitely look forward to, no matter what the circumstances.
    “Daphne,” Rain
said.
    “Hm?” she was
busy pulling up the right email so that she could send it to him.
    She glanced up
and saw him toying with his own phone.
    “What if I’m
making a huge mistake?”
    “What do you
mean?” She stopped searching through her email and looked up.
    “I mean…what if
I’m still in love with her? Would I be the world’s biggest ass or its biggest
romantic if I went to New York right now and told her that I loved her? That I
wanted her to call off the wedding and be with me?”
    Daphne dropped
her phone.

 
 
 
    Chapter Five

 
 
 
    Rain studied
Daphne’s face, watching for her reaction. She’d always been beautiful to him.
There was no question about that. Long, black hair framed her oval face. She
stared at him with large, honey brown, startled eyes. Her skin was a couple
shades lighter than cocoa. In fact, she reminded him of hot chocolate—warm
and sweet.
    She grabbed her
phone from where it’d fallen on the table next to her half-empty plate of