Tasha froze when she heard the sound of a woman trying to hide her orgasm.
She closed her eyes and thought to herself, “Oh god.” When Tasha finally found her voice, she whispered, “Eric, I’ve got to call you back.” Then, she disconnected the call.
Seconds later the sound of a male’s voice finding his own release followed. Tasha was rooted to where she stood. She’d never prayed so hard in her life to be wrong. The moments it took for them to pull themselves together felt like an eternity. Even though her back was still to them she heard the moment they came out from behind the plants.
“Oh sit!”
Tasha knew that voice anywhere and slowly turned around to see a stricken look on Sabrina’s face. The three of them just stood there not knowing what to say.
Tasha looked from Sabrina’s guilt ridden face to the man she was screwing at her own wedding rehearsal dinner. Then, as if things couldn’t go from bad to worse, the door to the balcony opened.
Tim stood there smiling from ear to ear, “Here you are. I see you found my lovely fiancé. Everyone was wondering where half my wedding party had gone. Sabrina your dad wants to make a toast to us before they shut the restaurant down.”
Sabrina smoothed down her dress as her eyes pleaded with Tasha to keep her mouth shut. “Tasha found me. I have the beginnings of a small headache and wanted to come out for a little quiet. It’s so noisy inside.”
Tim looked genuinely concerned, “You okay?”
Her voice was surprisingly calm, “Um…yes. I’m fine.”
He seemed relieved as he walked further onto the balcony towards her. Wrapping her up into his arms he turned to the man who only seconds before had been screwing his fiancé.
Without an ounce of guilt he spoke, “I just came out here for a smoke but was rewarded by sharing the company of both these beautiful women.”
Tim looked lovingly into Sabrina’s eyes. “I can’t argue with you there. However, Daniel…your wife is looking for you too.”
Daniel nodded to his brother-in-law, “Yeah…if I’m out of sight for even a few minutes she’s ready to launch a search party.” He decided not to light his cigarette and went back inside.
Tim kissed the side of Sabrina’s head, “We should probably go back too.”
“I’ll be inside in a minute honey. I just need to talk to Tasha for a second.”
“Don’t be too long. I’m enjoying making my brother crazy with jealousy over my beautiful fiancé.” He kissed her cheek and went back inside.
It took everything within Tasha not to strangle Sabrina. She couldn’t wait for Tim to be out of earshot. “Have you lost your damn mind Sabrina? You’ve done some low shit but this takes the cake. Your rehearsal dinner with his BROTHER-in law?!”
“Shhh…he might hear you! And they don’t even like each other.”
“Are you serious? Now you’re worried about somebody hearing you! Anybody could have walked out here and caught you. I heard everything! What were you thinking? Tim could have caught you.”
“Can you calm down for one minute? I made a mistake but no one has to know anything about it. Daniel’s not going to say anything and if you don’t, we can just pretend this didn’t happen.”
“Sabrina, is it not registering that you just slept with your fiancé’s brother-in-law on the eve of your wedding with him not even ten feet away?”
The first sign of emotion from Sabrina after everything was frustration with Tasha. “How many times do I have to tell you that Tim and Daniel can’t stand each other? And, I didn’t plan this. It just happened.”
Tasha rolled her eyes, “Well, I should hope you didn’t plan this. How long? How long have you been cheating on Tim with him?”
“Don’t look at me like that Tasha! I met them around the same time when we went to Palo Alto. But, this is the first time Daniel and I have been together since that trip. Like I said we didn’t plan this it just happened and it won’t happen again.”
Tasha hissed at her best friend, “That was the random hook up from when we went on vacation? Jenny’s husband? Nothing ever just happens Sabrina! You can’t keep using that tired excuse. My god…you’re getting married tomorrow! If you can’t be faithful…why are you getting married?”
“Would you please keep your voice down? You are overreacting. But, if I have to spell it out for you…I’m marrying Tim because I love him. I love Tim.”
Tasha stood there looking at Sabrina like she had two heads. She was speechless.
“Stop looking at me like that. I’ll need you to cover for me while I get to a bathroom and get cleaned up. I can’t go back in there smelling like sex.”
Tasha had helped Sabrina cover up a lot of things over the years but this took the cake. She literally stood there with an incredulous expression on her face as Sabrina left walking through the balcony doors back towards the party as if nothing ever happened.
Chapter 27
Tasha released a pent up breath as her thoughts returned to the present. Tim took his eyes off the road for just a moment to look over at her thoughtfully.
“You haven’t said much since we got on the road.”
She tried to smile but failed miserably. Being next to him was harder than she’d even anticipated. Tasha pretended that she was worried about the weather. “I’m fine. Just hoping we can get to the cabin before we get
