Avoiding Responsibility (Avoiding #2)(152)

Lexi stopped just before she reached the door to the groom's dressing rooms. She took a deep breath and entered the room. The space was a near match of the one she had just left, but two or three times the size with a fireplace and grand piano. Seth, Luke and Hunter were sitting in chairs in the common room. Seth was drinking straight from a handle of Jack Daniels. They must have thought it would be funny….ironic. Bourbon only made her sleepy. Seth passed the bottle to Luke when he noticed her.

"Don't tell Sandy," he said standing quickly as she approached.

Lexi couldn't help but smile at him. At least someone really seemed to care about their significant other. "No worries there. I'm here to see Jack."

Seth, Luke and Hunter sent each other a knowing look. She could have read that look from a mile away. They didn't think it was a good idea for her to go in to see him especially in the state he was in. Seth at least knew what he was capable of even if he didn't typically mind. And to be honest, she would agree with them on so many levels. Her being alone with Jack right before his wedding…not the brightest idea in the world, but then again it hadn't been her idea. And if the last thing he wanted to do before he got married was see her, well she figured she could oblige. Well…at Ramsey's insistence.

"Can we talk about this Lex?" Seth asked freely using Jack's nickname.

"Look I'm only here are the request of the groom and the insistence of one of the groomsmen…my boyfriend," she tossed out the descriptive for reassurance. Though she doubted it gave them any. She had known all of these guys a long time. They had all been there when the Clark/Kate fiasco had gone down…and even before that with Danielle.

"I just think that maybe you should stay out of it," Seth proceeded forward.

"I couldn't agree with you more," she said.

"Well then what you doing here?" Luke asked tossing back a shot of the whiskey and handing it to Hunter.

"There really isn't time for this guys. You know as well as I do that Jack is a philandering ass. You've always known and you never cared up until this moment in his life, because now he's getting married," she said waving her hands in the air belittling the statement. "For some reason a piece of paper changes your mind about his behavior, which is kind of bullshit to be honest. So just do the same thing you did for the last seven years and turn a blind eye to the fact that I am going into his room. Okay?"

She knew that none of them would believe her if she had said that nothing was going to happen. She didn't want anything to happen, but the only way to get their attention would be to throw it back in their face. They had stood idly by all those years and let things happen. There was no legitimate reason now to get all high and mighty.

The desired effect occurred. All the guys ducked their chins admitting their involvement as an accomplice to Jack's actions. They knew as well as anyone just what they had witnessed and overlooked all that time. And though they felt bad about it at the moment, they weren't going to stop her. And anyway she wasn't planning on anything happening with Jack.

Lexi threw them a fake smile before sauntering towards the French doors. She opened it without knocking and quickly closed it in the faces of the three guys behind her.

"Lex," Jack murmured in an almost desperate tone.

"Hey Jack," she said tentatively. She couldn't help but notice how gorgeous he looked in his tux. She wondered if they had chosen blue to match his eyes, because she could see how much they stood out from across the room.

"I'm glad you're here," he said as he cleared the distance between them.

Before Lexi even knew what was going on, Jack grabbed her hips firmly in his hands and pressed her back against the door. Lexi gasped as she thudded against the wood. As she was recovering from the fact that her back had shaken the door frame, she realized in that split second that Jack's body was pressing against her. His hand threaded into her hair and his face began to move closer towards her. Lexi's mouth opened slightly in surprise…was he about to kiss her? Just when the thought connected in her mind, his mouth dropped down and met her lips.

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Revelations

There was a time I thought, that you did everything right

No lies, no wrong. Boy I, must've been outta my mind

So when I think of the time that I almost loved you

You showed your ass and I saw the real you

-Beyonce "The Best Thing I Never Had"

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Chapter 24: Present

Lexi could not believe that Jack had the nerve to kiss her on his wedding day. She knew that it hadn't meant anything to him before, but this had to be different. She didn't care if he was having doubts or if he wanted to bow out of the wedding, that didn't suddenly make it okay for his to kiss her. In fact, it just showed how confused and desperate he was. Just what she didn't need to deal with right now. Even Lexi with her loose morals when it came to Jack Howard knew that this was 100% not okay.