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said, “I’ve got what I need. We just need to drop it off on the sixth floor.”
    Ben pulled his phone out of his pocket. “I’ll wait here for you. Make a phone call while you’re gone.”
    “We can meet downstairs.”
    “No. Come back here.” Her eyes got wider. “We’ll go downstairs together.”
    She opened her mouth, then closed it without saying anything, clutching the duffle and scurrying out the door.
    He was going to make a quick check on the surprise Josh had planned for later that night, but he didn’t need to make a call after all. A waiting text confirmed that everything was in order. Josh may have protested a little at the fancy, formal wedding. But he’d pulled out all the stops to make sure that in every way this was the day Bree dreamed of.
    How the hell had they discovered their real feelings for each other? When they’d been kids, Josh was the first to pull Bree’s hair or make sure she accidentally “slipped” in the mud. Even two years ago, they were both inveterate teases where the other was concerned. Then, dueling attorneys, they crossed swords over some mega law suit and never looked back. Sparks still flew between them. The good kind.
    Could he and Ali have that kind of chance? Fake date or not, they’d left their safe place behind them. Could they ever go back to being friends with the awareness that had flamed between them in these past two hours? There was a line from Alice in Wonderland …something about going back.
    It had never seemed to be the right time for them. She was finishing her freshman year at Vandy when he was starting his first out-of-college job. It had taken him a long time to accept his sexual tastes, then he worried about corrupting her sweetness. Or maybe he’d always been afraid she’d scream and run. One summer he’d decided to hell with what everyone else thought. He was going to ask her out, and if all went well, he’d fly her out to LA for a week and see what happened between them. But when he got to Houston, he found out she was dating Tim. Maybe the universe was telling him something.
    He’d always hated how Tim treated her. Ben had happened to be in town Ali’s birthday week about a year after she started dating Tim when the jerk broke a date with her at the last minute. And not just any date. For her birthday, Tim had given her four, hard-to-get tickets to a concert she wanted to see. A romantic gift, but at the last minute, Tim said it wasn’t really his thing and she should go on with Josh and Bree. He’d catch up with them after. They’d all been at Bree’s townhouse waiting for Tim to arrive. Ali was so excited, bubbly as a kid. Ben was torturing himself hanging around with them until Tim showed up. Then Tim texted his change of plans. Texted! Ali kept a smile on her face, but he’d seen the tears shining in her eyes and knew she was hurt and humiliated. Ben used the spare ticket. Almost said something about the way Tim treated her, but he never did.
    If there’s no going back for them, then what? He thought of his dad’s words.
    Some things are so important you just have to take that chance.
    He wanted her. And he wanted it all—not just the sex. Of course, he wanted her that way, but he’d always wanted more with her, even when he’d been not much more than a dumpy bag of teenage hormones. And if it doesn’t work out? He’d lose something too precious to imagine. But if he never had the guts to try? He’d lose her anyway. One day he’d be here in Houston for her wedding. To someone else.
    He remembered the line he’d been trying to think of. “I can’t go back to yesterday. I was a different person then.” Kathryn Beaumont, the voice of Alice. Going back wasn’t an option, and he didn’t want to go back. He wanted to move forward. Stack up the clichés. It was now or never. He was going for this. All in. And he’d use every advantage he had. She wanted Valentine’s romance. He could do that. She wanted slutty wedding