Natasha’s P. O. V
I saw Nick break off his and Stephanie’s dance and walk away towards the pool. I
decided to follow him but Sean stopped him.
“Leave him be Nats.”
“How many times Sean? How many times will that bitch crush him over before he
realizes she’s no good?!”
“I don’t know Natasha. But what I do know is that you do care about him.” He smiled.
“Well of course I care about him. Jude is the first real friend I had after Joey!”
“Er yes but your affection isn’t the friendly kind Natasha.”
“WHAT?”
“Jesus! Calm down.” He looked around and smiled around reassuringly.
“What?” I asked again lowering my voice.
“Well I have seen you look at him and I have also seen him around you. What you guys
have between you is more than friendship. No hear me out before you say anything, I
think that you guys could make this work, maybe you don’t have to break it of after a
year.”
“Sean! Not here!” I said quickly glancing around.
“Oh alright then but give it a thought and we are so going to talk about this later.”
I just rolled my eyes. I couldn’t wait for tomorrow to come. As soon as we had
breakfast we were going to head back. I went to get myself a soda nodding at a few
people who smiled my way. Gosh! I was in the public eye and it was unnerving. I liked
being unnoticed but it seemed everyone knew who I was. I scanned the crowd for Jude
hoping he was back or else people were going to have something to gossip about. I
soon spotted him talking to a cousin of his. He was standing with his back towards
me. I walked fast to where he was and decided might as well make this believable. I
snaked my arms around his waist and asked, “Missed me?”
He turned around in surprise and to my embarrassment it wasn’t Jude at all!
“I –I I am so sorry!” I stuttered.
He looked at me in amusement and said, “Its ok! It was an honest mistake. Besides
people mistake me for Jude all the time.”
I stared at him in astonishment. Who was he? Well whoever he was, he was gorgeous.
Like make my heart race, make me weak in the knees gorgeous! He had perfect features,
dark blue eyes, dirty blonde hair like Jude’s that had the just out if the bed style.
His physic was something to die for. He was a breathtakingly gorgeous as Jude but he
had this mischievous aura around him that made him more adorable.
Suddenly the stranger leaned closer and whispered, “Take a picture it lasts longer.”
I looked at him in surprise, “I was just surprised because you look strikingly
similar to Jude only Jude is better looking.” I said with a smirk.
He looked at me in surprise and then raised an eyebrow as if to say, is that a fact?
Before I could say anything else Sean was there and said, “Natasha I see you have met
cousin Wade!”
“Wade that’s Natasha, Jude’s wife to be.”
“Pleasure to meet you” said Wade and took my hand and brushed his lips lightly
against it. I shivered at the contact and pulled my hand quickly.
“Same here Wade.”
“Well” said Wade, “Where is the groom to be? I can’t seem to find him.”
“Well I’ll go look for him but Wade you must dance while you can before they all stop
and move towards food.”
“Sure Sean. But I don’t seem to know anyone but my cousins who I dare say are already
engaged with some man or the other.”
“Ask Natasha” said Sean and waved us off as he went to search for Jude.
“Well may I have this dance?”
I shrugged and we went towards the dance floor. There was an awkward silence between
us.
“So Wade, what do you do?”
“Well I have been absorbed into the family business.”
“Oh you’re an architect as well?”
“No, my father has a fleet of ship Natasha. We rent them out, sometimes we use them
to export and import stuff. Weird I thought Jude would’ve told you.”
I smacked myself mentally and tried improvising, “Oh I remember now. He told me but I
got confused. You guys have a huge family.”
Wade laughed and said, “I know right? A newbie would get confused.”
We danced to four songs and it was fun. Wade was funny and he made laugh all the
time. He told me a little about himself and we discussed music as a new song came up.
We had a lot of similar choices.
As the fourth song ended Wade pulled me close and said, “I have to give it to Jude.
He really knows how to pick the gorgeous ones.”
I blushed and said, “Thank you.”
He smiled a said, “My pleasure.”
I turned around and started walking towards the food area when Wade pulled me back and looked into my eyes. It was intense. Blue eyes should be banned I tell you! I couldn’t move, I couldn’t breathe all I could do was stare into that expanse of blue.
I saw him looking at my lips and I licked them nervously. He smiled softly and bent close. My heart was hammering in my chest. His mouth was near my ear and then he whispered, “I know your secret.”