Rockstar Daddy (Decoy Series) (33 page)

      "What's the matter Kendal?"

Before I can answer I hear the thumping of fast feet coming up the stairs and stop next to me, Max and Leo. Max looks toward the new arrivals and then dropping the grip he has on my chin. I turn and see Rhys and a very unhappy looking Jax. What's up with him? Rhys is happily smiling at me, last time I saw him I freaked out a little. Well a lot, so I think I make up for it when he takes a step towards me but I run towards him. He laughs and wraps his arms around me.

      "You look good Kendal."

   "Thankyou."

      "I don't mean the dress, I mean you."

   "Oh."

What do I say to that? I break away and see Jax looking at me, thankfully looking happier. Can I hug Jax? I feel like shit if I don't because I just hugged his three best friends and I've met him twise now and no hug. Some near kisses but no hugs. I slowly step towards him but he stalks over to me and wraps me in his big strong arms. I sigh from feeling a little relieved and from finally being in his arms. The amount of times I have thought about being in this mans arms again. I feel him groan against me and it snaps me out of it. I quickly pull away from his arms feeling a little dazed. I clear my throat.

      "Hi Jax."

He smiles sweetly at me but that doesn't mean it doesn't make me cream a little.

      "Kendal, you look beautiful."

   "Thankyou."

I feel the guys come closer and Max clears his throat.

     "Erm I'll speak to ya later Kenny."

I nod and they all salute there goodbyes to me. They obviously want to give us some alone time. I look him over, fucking hell he looks sexy as sin standing there in his suit. I look down at his feet and laugh at his Converse.

      "Did none of you guys want to wear shoes."

He scrunches up his face and looks a little disgusted.

      "Can you really see us in shoes?"

   "No probably not. But you look good in a suit."

Too good actually, I just want to rip it off him.

      "Not as good as what you look like. You look amazing babe."

He steps closer and strokes my arm that is now covered in goosebumps. His hand travels up my arms and onto my neck. I look into his beautiful gray eyes and I think about what I have to tell him tomorrow. As he leans in forward I hear the bridal room door open and I step away from Jax. The spell now broken. I look and I see Tanya standing there with her eyebrows raised. Shit she knows I was just about to kiss Jax. I WAS JUST ABOUT TO KISS JAX. Fucking hell, I said I wasn't going to do this but it's too hard.

      "Hi Jax."

Jax turns and goes to give Tanya a friendly hug.

      "Tanya, it's good to see you."

   "You too. Kendal? We need to finish up."

That's me being summoned back into the safety zone and I gladly take it. I say a quick bye to Jax and enter the room of women all looking at me. I see that in my absence Milly has changed into he flower girl dress and oh my she looks adorable. Her dress is white and has a navy sash around her waist and them fluffs out.

      "Wow Milly! You look just like Sophie!"

She giggles and spins around.

      "I look like a princess like auntie Sophie?"

   "Yes! So pretty."

She looks very happy now and I don't look at my friends who are waiting for me to look at them so they can give me a look just like Tanya did.

Chapter 24

~Jax~

   As soon as Rhys told me Leo and Max had gone to see Kendal I ran straight up there too. I hated the thought of them seeing Kendal without me, childish but I don't fucking care. When I saw Max holding onto her chin and talking to her quietly I wanted to kill him. I know they were just friends and Max would never betray me like that but it still hurt seeing her so close to Max when she hasn't even hugged me since seeing her again. They brake apart and I'm taken back by how gorgeous she looks. As soon as she took that one step towards me I knew what she wanted and I closed the distance and held her in my arms. I couldn't help the groan that escapes me when I feel her sexy little body against mine, it's been too long. I appreciate when the guys leave us alone.

   I like that she seemed to take in my appearance and by the goosebumps all over her arms she's just as affected as me. I can't help but gently pull her towards me and move closer, those full lips tempt me but as soon as the door behind me opens she breaks away. For fuck sake I cannot catch a break! Every time I come close something happens. I turn to see it's the feisty little Tanya, her friends are all quiet feisty but Tanya is something else. I used to really like her and we used to get along great. I hope she still likes me but by the look she's shooting at Kendal I don't think she approves. I go and give her a friendly kiss and I'm relieved she softly chuckles against my chest. When Kendal walks into the room I look at her great legs and fucking hell look at those shoes! If those aren't fuck me shoes I don't know what are. I see Tanya give me a knowing look and she shakes her head before closing the door. I was stood frozen in front of the door for a while listening to Kendal make Milly laugh. Hearing Sophie's dad coming up the stairs snaps me out of it and I go back down and search for the guys.

   I don't have to look for long because there waiting for me near the double doors leading out to the garden. Rhys is out in the garden talking to guests who are now all seated and waiting. Leo shakes my shoulder from behind me.

      "How you doing?"

   "Fine I suppose. I still can't believe she's here."

      "Yea I know weird right? Those new friends Sophie was bragging about were Kenny and her girls."

   "Come on Rhys wants us."

I see him waving at us to come over. It's time to stand in our places and I don't really want to talk about Kendal right now. I can't stop thinking about her though, if Rhys hadn't of found out about Kendal before today fuck knows how I would be reacting right now. I'm still a little shocked and I've had two days to get used to it but I'm not. I wanted to find her and get her back but it's a shock seeing her and finding out she's got a son. That don't matter to me, I know I'll love the kid because his apart of Kendal but seeing her all over again is a little hard. She's more beautiful and she seems different, maybe she's changed because she's a mum now and doing it alone has made her toughen up. My feelings for her came running back as soon as I saw her and it shocked me a bit, I knew I still had feelings for her but I didn't expect them to come back full force.

   We make our way down and stand behind Rhys in a line facing the guests. Max leans forward and mutters loudly to Rhys.

      "Rhys man, how did you not know?"

   "Shut up Max. Whenever Soph spoke about her 'new friends' she had met she didn't really use there names she would just say 'the girls' or other girly nonsense."

      "Well I duno about you but if I was you and heard she made friends with a girl named Kendal I would at least ask her about who she was. I only know one Kendal."

Rhys shoots Max a hard glare.

      "Look I've had a lot to think about lately, first it was moving back here and trying to find a place to live while also planning how I was going to propose and then persuade her to get married before we started writing up our new album. Then I was worrying about you guys with my stag, so sorry for not listening to idle female chit chat."

I do remember Sophie talking about them and most of the time she would say 'I'm of to meet the girls.' Shit like that. Yea sometimes she would drop a name sometimes but I never thought twise about it. I really wasn't expecting Sophie to bump into my ex and her friends and become part of there little friendship group.

      "We didn't think it would happen. Leave it."

Max drops it but Leo bites his lip.

      "Is Tanya here too then?"

I frown and nod at him.

      "All of them are here, Kendal said James, Mark and Sam are coming later."

I catch Leo looking up to the sky.

      "Ah Tanya. She was so dam sexy."

   "Yea well, Kendal's all grown up to be one hot woman now."

I punch Max in the arm, I manage to snakily do it so none of the guests see.

      "Chill man, I would never go there but I aint blind."

   "Are you gonna be alright today Jax?"

I look over at Rhys, he doesn't need to be thinking about my problems today.

      "Yea, course."

We all stand side by side and wait for the wedding to start. I don't know how I'm going to be today, spending all day with Kendal looking as sexy as she does. I can feel a hard on coming on already.

~Kendal~

   I managed to shake off the girls. Sophie and Maisy think this is all meant to be and romantic but I can see the worry on Tanya and
Jessica's faces. Still in there roles but I know from a text off Jessica this morning that she's starting to drift to Sophie and Maisys side. She had said that when I was with Jax I was so happy and she loved seeing me like that. She told me seeing me down and putting on a happy face for Finley was hard for her. She knows I still love Jax and thinks he still loves me for some reason. She must have been talking to Sophie. All I can do is get through today and keep thinking that this is not romantic at all. Awkward, scary and nightmare all come to mind first. Sophie's dad walks in while I touch up my make-up.

   All ready, flowers in hand, Milly has her little basket of rose petals like the ones on the arch they will get married under. Sophie is holding onto her dad with a death grip when we all leave the bridal room. I'm walking directly behind Sophie along side Jessica, she grabs onto my hand and gives it a reassuring squeeze. When we get to the bottom of the stairs we see the designed walkway of navy drapes that leads us to the empty room at the back of the house with the big open doors which lead to the ceremony. A young man standing by the doors gives a thumbs up to someone I can't see and  I hear the music start. The voices outside all stop and wait for the bride. Sophie gives Milly a kiss, Steph reminded her what to do. She gives us all a thumbs up and walks slowly down the aisle, I move a little so I can see her. Everyone is looking at her and smiling as she sprinkles her rose petals as she walks.  Sophie turns to face us all, still gripping onto her dads arm.

      "Right girls, this is it."

She beams a big smile but her bottom lip is quivering. We all have tears in our eyes, I can feel a sob waiting to be released in my throat. Sophies dad wipes at his face and clears his throat.

      "Come on girls, lets not mess those pretty faces."

We all laugh and collect ourselves because it's time for us to walk down. We all get back into out two by two behind Sophie. I'm holding my flowers in one hand and still holding onto Jessica's hand with the other. I don't realize I'm holding onto her so hard as we begin to walk until I feel her squeeze in return. We both look to each other and smile, as long as I have my girls I'll be fine. I relax a little and look up but I look right into the eyes of Jax but I can't look at h8im right now. I look to Rhys and I feel so happy for him as I see his eyes are filled with so much love as he watches Sophie as she makes her way down to him. Before I start to cry I see Leo who gives me a wink and I can't help but look back to Jax. When I look into his eyes my heart pounds so hard, his eyes tear at my heart strings because his looking at me exactly the same way Rhys is at Sophie. I'm shaking and I keep eye contact with Jax until I can't anymore as I stand behind Sophie as her dad gives her away. I feel a little relaxed now I've escaped his intense stare but listening to Rhys and Sophie is no easier to deal with. When I hear Sophie crying my tears fall too, I'm so happy for them but when I hear Rhys voice break a little as he repeats his vows to Sophie I don't fight the emotion anymore. I look behind me and see Maisy, Tanya and Jessica are crying just like me. Why are weddings so emotional.