“Gunner, don’t do it. ”
It was too late. Before I could even stop him, Gunner turned the guy around and punched him square in the face. The poor bastard took two steps back and fell on his ass.
Gunner walked up to him and bent down.
“If you ever so much as look at my wife again, I’ll make sure you hurt for months. ”
Ellie walked over and grabbed Gunner by the arm, pulling him away. The douchebag looked up at me.
I just shrugged my shoulders.
“I told you, dude. ”
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
ARI
“What fun am I going to have, Ells? I can’t even drink. How fun is a bachelorette party when the damn bride can’t even drink?”
Ellie rolled her eyes and looked over at Heather. “Heather isn’t drinking either, and I already told you I won’t. ”
“Amanda will. You know that red-headed bitch will drink enough for all four of us plus some. ”
Heather laughed, and Ellie sat down on the sofa, letting out a long sigh.
We were staying at the cottage on my parents’ property and the guys were at my parents’ place on the lake. I was dying to know what they had in store for Jeff’s bachelor party.
I reached over and grabbed my cell phone only to have Ellie snag it out of my hand.
“No! You’re not calling him, Ari. You have called him three times in the last hour. ”
“Don’t you want to know what they’re up to tonight? What if girls are there?”
Amanda piped in, “Oh, Jesus H. Christ, Ari, stop worrying so much. It’s like Ells’s bachelorette party all over again. Now, I haven’t been out in months, Brad’s mother is driving me fucking crazy, and all I want to do is drink myself under a table and dance with a good-looking guy, who I’m hoping will at least grab my ass once while we dance. ”
I just sat there and stared at Amanda. I glanced over at Ellie and Heather, and they were pretty much looking at Amanda in the same way.
“Holy hell, Mandy, married life sure is treating you well,” Ellie said.
Heather let out a giggle.
Amanda sighed and sat down in the chair across from me.
“I think I got married too soon. ”
“What?” Ellie, Heather, and I all said at the same time. “Amanda, are you and Brad having troubles?”
Amanda shook her head, fighting back tears. “No, Ari, we aren’t having any troubles. Things have never been better. ”
“Then, why the hell would you say you got married too soon?”
“Because if I wasn’t married yet, Brad’s bitch of a douche-twat mother wouldn’t be bugging me to have a baby. She wouldn’t be taking me to lunch once a week and giving me advice on how to get pregnant. She acts like I don’t fucking know how to get pregnant. ”
We all started laughing, and Amanda ended up joining in on the laughter.
“Come on, Ari, let’s go. I promise the evening is not going to be filled with naked men or anything that will make your pregnant ass, or Jeff’s ass for that matter, have to worry. ”
“Fine, let’s go. ” I said.