Dating a Metro Man by Donna McDonald Page A

in the hall. I know someplace private.
    Jenna sighed and looked at Lauren in apology. “I need to go take care of something. It shouldn’t take long. Give me twenty minutes. I’ll be back for the cake cutting and the dancing.”
    Lauren patted Jenna’s shoulder in understanding before she dashed off.
    “Sorry, Lauren. Jenna’s been as bad as Seth today about her electronics,” Alexa said sharply, rolling her eyes. “Seth has been on the phone since the wedding ended. He’s supposed to be helping Casey provide security.”
    And Alexa had been hoping he’d be paying more attention to her daughter, who didn’t bring a damn date for once.
    Lauren shrugged. “Jenna’s been great. I couldn’t ask for a better MOH. She’s done a lot and deserves a few minutes of relief,” she said, smiling at Alexa.
    And if Lauren had read the text message correctly, Jenna was about to get some major relief. Lauren would bet her trust fund and Jim’s money that the sender of the sexy message she’d seen on Jenna’s phone was Seth.
    “So what’s with the MOH stuff?” Alexa said laughing. “We have to talk in acronyms now?”
    “It’s efficient and effective—like sexting—I mean text messaging,” Lauren said, looking at her husband and giggling at his blush. “It was a Freudian slip. I swear. I am seriously trying to behave.”
    “What’s wrong with sexting?” Ben asked, looking at Jim’s flushed face. “I like it.”
    “Why is everyone looking at me? I didn’t say there was anything wrong with sexting,” Jim said, defending himself, and giving his bride a don’t-you-say-anything-more look.
    Lauren giggled again. She sent sexy messages to Jim all the time. Sometimes he sent her one back, but he’d be embarrassed for anyone to know it.
    “Well, I don’t know what the big deal is,” Alexa said, shrugging her elegant shoulders. “If I want to tell Casey something sexy, I call him up and tell him. I don’t know what’s so great about seeing it in black and white.”
    Regina patted her arm. “Some of us like the titillation of reading the words over and over throughout the day. Plus it’s fun to play word games,” Regina explained. “We’re not all as brave as you are about telling men what we want or need. Sometimes it’s easier to do when you can’t see his face, and it gives him time to think about it.”
    Alexa snorted. “I guess I like a more direct approach and face-to-face communication.”
    Ben linked his fingers with Regina’s and leaned in to kiss her cheek. “I want to sext you for the rest of my life.”
    “Kaiser, you’re so you are pathetic,” Jim said, smirking at the man he now considered one of his truest friends.
    “Gallagher, don’t be so insecure on your wedding day. I’ve spent months giving you my best tips. Now it’s time go practice them on your wife,” Ben told him with a laugh, loving the way Regina snickered at his side. Her support of him was unconditional, and he was already getting to that point where all he could think about was getting her home and alone with him.
    “Don’t worry, Ben. Jim will not let your training go to waste. I intend to see to it that he gets to practice every day,” Lauren teased, laughing at her husband choking on his drink.
    “Am I ever going to get used to that mouth of yours?” Jim exclaimed.
    “Maybe—but we’ll be so old by then you’ll have lost your hearing anyway.” Lauren smiled and held her husband’s gaze as she happily finished the rest of her food. She sincerely hoped Jenna was having as much fun at her wedding as she was.
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    “Don’t push them down. They snap open on the sides,” Jenna whispered, exploring Seth’s neck with her hungry mouth. Her breasts were straining inside the complicated bodice of her dress, but there would be no relief for them. She’d have to settle for relief elsewhere.
    Seth had both hands under the multiple layers of her formal dress and made a strangled sound of pleasure