"Full bar, thank God. What's your drink of choice?" He gestured to the bottles of alcohol along the bar with a flourish.
"Tonight? Let's start with a gin martini, please."
Mike handed over her drink and clinked it with his bourbon. They each took long sips of their drinks without breaking eye contact. Stella glanced at an empty table in the corner and raised her eyebrows to Mike; he nodded and took her arm to steer her over there. As Drew set his glass down, a tall blond guy came over and slapped him on the back before he turned to Stella.
"So this is Stella? So glad you're here with Mike for the wedding," he said, holding out his hand for her to shake.
Mike put his hand on the small of her back.
"Stella, I'd like to introduce you to Josh Rogers, the groom. Josh, my girlfriend, Stella Hyde," Mike said, his hand stroking the small of her back in a way that made her whole body tingle. Or maybe that was the gin hitting her bloodstream. She ignored whatever it was and smiled at Josh as she shook his hand.
"A pleasure to meet you, Josh. Congratulations on the wedding! I'm honored to be here."
A strawberry blonde with soft curls and a knee-length white eyelet dress walked up to them. Stella had pegged her as the bride as soon as she'd walked into the room—who else would wear white to a rehearsal dinner? At her approach, Stella moved closer to Mike. He picked up his drink and sipped it, but she knew he noticed, too, because he slid his arm around her waist. Damn, there was that tingle again.
"Mike, is this Stella? Stella, I'm Molly. It's so nice to meet you."
Molly gave her a huge smile that felt genuine, and not for the first time, Stella wondered what the whole story was between the Molly and Mike breakup. Did Josh and Molly feel guilty for what they'd done to Mike? Did they ask him to be in the wedding to assuage their guilt?
She wasn't going to get an answer to that question right now (if ever), so her job was just to stand here next to Mike and turn on the charm. Luckily, she worked in politics; "charm" was her middle name.
Stella increased the wattage of her smile by at least fifty percent.
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