Too Close

Chapter 33

Olivia's P.O.V

We made our way back up to the reception. He helped me carry the stage equipment out of the storage closet and we set the stage for the singer. Grandma pulled me onto the dance floor when the performer arrived and began singing.

Tyler found me and asked to dance. With his arms around me, I rested my arms on his shoulder. Grandma danced by us and nodded her head in approval and gave a wink.

I danced with him until my feet threatened to fall off and spent the rest of the night sitting back at my table, watching everyone enjoy themselves.

One of Tony's groomsmen pulled up a chair to the middle of the dance floor and everyone gathered around the front of it.

"What's going on?" Tyler asked.

"I don't know," I shrugged and stood to watch. We walked to an empty spot in the middle of the crowd. Katie sat down in the chair and Tony followed her then kneeled down on the floor in front of her. They were doing the garter toss. He lifted up the skirts of Katie's gown and stuck his head under there.

"Whoa!" I looked to my left. Ashley's six year old little brother stared at them, wide-eyed. Tyler bent down and covered his eyes and I couldn't help but laugh.

Tony resurfaced from beneath her dress with a lacy garter in his mouth. The crowd roared, mostly guys, with whoops and cheers. Tony whispered something to Katie, who laughed and kissed him wildly, and then he turned and threw the garter at the crowd.

I didn't realize Tyler left my side until I saw him in front of the crowd catching the garter. People cheered for him too and he flashed me a grin then mouthed, "I'm marrying you." I hid my face behind my hands from my family members who turned their heads to look at me.

Tyler's P.O.V

I couldn't stay away, and frankly, I had no intentions to. She was everywhere. Her leg was wrapped around my waist, hand in my hair, her other hand unbuttoning my shirt.

I had her pinned up against the door of the storage closet. I'd gotten her away from the wedding reception, but getting her to a bedroom would be a completely different journey.

She pushed at my chest and I moved back. Then she grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the closet. We stumbled up a set of stairs.

"This one," she whispered, peering into a bedroom. I backed her up into the room and closed the door. She peered up at me, blinking up in that innocent way she does.

In only a few short hours, I was supposed to be on a flight back to Charlotte for another assignment. That meant I would have to leave her again after having just begged her to forgive me. I should've never come here, but I wanted to make sure Jason didn't have anyone watching her any more.

"What?" She reached up and placed a hand on my shoulder.

"Just enjoying the moment." She smiled but it was a small one. She knew something was up.

I unzipped her dress and took my time pulling it off. I wanted to make the next few hours last as long as possible, even if it meant I wouldn't get any sleep in this bed. She rolled onto her side and wrapped her leg over my hip and placed a hand on my chest.

She was softer and warmer than I remembered. She gasped and her fingers dug into my arm. I held on to her waist like life depended on it, helping keep up our pace when her body finally relaxed in my arms and she moaned my name in my ear.

Breathing hard, I rested my head on the pillow. She put her head on my shoulder and traced my stomach with her fingers. We were so wrapped up in each other I didn't know where my body ended and hers began.

"You won't see me in the morning," I said. She didn't answer. I needed to make sure she understood.

"Okay."

Olivia's POV

I waited until he was asleep. Slowly, so I wouldn't wake him, I untangled my legs from between his knees and climbed off the bed. Turning on the bathroom light, I found his pants near the corner of the bed. I pulled his phone out of the pocket and managed to find the power button. I crept into the bathroom and closed the door behind me.

The screen lit up and a locked symbol sat in the middle of it. I tapped it, hoping it wouldn't ask for a password. When it showed three boxes for a password I tried 'liv'. The screen unlocked on the first try and pulled up a call log. I guessed it was the last thing he was on.

In red lettering it showed seven missed calls from Reed, Colton, and somebody named Jason. The Jason person had called four times. I opened his messages.

I went through the entire phone and couldn't find anything else, he kept nothing on it, not even social media. I had hoped I would see something that would reveal what it was that he wasn't telling me. I trusted him enough to not even consider that he had been with someone besides me, but there was something that he wasn't telling me. Just as I was going to turn the phone back off, a notification flashed across the top of the screen. It read:

Reminder: Rover Lake deal 4/13 3pm.

I almost dropped the phone when Tyler called from the other side of the door.

"Olivia?"

"I'll be right out!" I turned off the light and went back into the bedroom. In the dark, I slipped the phone back into his pants and slipped beneath the covers where he pulled me back into his arms.