I sat there and watched the two of them dancing. I glanced over toward Mitch. He was so caught up in his conversation that he hadn’t even noticed them dancing.
Whitley walked up and grabbed my beer as she sat down. “Wow. This is exhausting. ” Then, she noticed Reed and Courtney dancing. She sat up and dropped her mouth open. “Oh. My. God. They’re dancing together. Where’s Mitch?”
I gestured toward him and Karen.
Whitley turned, looked at them, and then back at me. “Who is she? He’s been ignoring Court and talking to her almost all night. ”
“Old fiancée. ”
“Prick. ” Whitley turned back toward Reed and Courtney.
I noticed when Courtney quickly wiped a tear away.
I shook my head as Whitley took my hand in hers.
“What happened today?” she asked.
I glanced over at her and tilted my head. “What do you mean?”
She smiled and shook her head. “Don’t think I didn’t notice the black eye that someone had tried to cover up with makeup. ”
I laughed as I took my beer back from her. I took a deep breath and slowly let it out. “Mitch started egging Reed on for some reason. Started saying all this shit about Courtney. Reed asked him to stop, and Mitch wouldn’t. I have no idea what’s gotten into Mitch lately. But Reed got pissed and pushed Mitch. He told him to stop talking. The next thing I knew, Mitch was on top of Reed, punching him. I jumped up and tried to pull Mitch off of him, and he punched me by mistake. ”
“What? Holy shit, Layton! Are you okay?” She put her hand on the side of my face.
I guided her hand up to my lips and kissed it. “Yeah, baby, I’m fine, but Reed’s nose wouldn’t stop bleeding for the longest time. I was sure it was broken. ”
“What was Mitch saying that pissed Reed off?”
“He just kept talking to Kevin about how good Courtney was in bed. Mitch has never talked about anyone like that. He was clearly trying to get Reed worked up, almost like he wanted Reed to go after him. Then, he mentioned something about being sick of this shit. I’m assuming he meant Court and Reed. ”
Whitley sat back in the chair. “Huh, how weird. Courtney mentioned that Mitch has been working really late a lot and going into town all the time. She said she feels like they’re drifting apart. ”
I didn’t want to say anything to Whitley until I had proof, but I was pretty sure Mitch was cheating on Courtney. Richard had mentioned how he’d thought he saw Mitch coming out of Karen’s house one night, but he wasn’t one hundred percent sure it had been Mitch.
I’ll kill that fucker if I find out he’s cheating on Courtney.
The DJ got on the speaker and announced it was time for the bride’s and groom’s songs. Whitley and I had decided we would each pick a song. We had drawn straws to see whose would get played first. I’d won.
As we walked out to the dance floor, I glanced over toward her father, who smiled at me.
Huh, that’s a change, considering he has been giving me the evil eye all night.
We stopped in the middle of the floor, and I used my finger to pull Whitley’s chin up. I looked into her beautiful green eyes.
“I love you so much, baby. I feel like this song was written just for you. If I could write you a song, this would be it. ”
As Keith Urban’s “All For You” began playing, I pulled her against my body.
The words began, and she grabbed my shirt as she buried her head into my chest. I could feel her sobbing, so I held her closer to me. As she looked up into my eyes, my heart slammed into my chest, and I felt tears building.
“Please don’t cry. ”
She smiled. “They’re happy tears. I’ve never been so happy in my life, Layton. Thank you. ”
We danced in silence as I held her close to me.
The song ended, and the DJ announced that we had decided to do things differently with the last song being mine to Whitley, and now, it was time for her song to me.