Forever In Love by Bella Andre, Lucy Kevin Read Free Book Online

eyes, she didn’t think he was thinking about the photographers. No, she was almost positive he was thinking about them.
    Normally, they were able to give each other easy smiles. Because they were friends. But today...today it didn’t feel like anything would ever be easy between them again. All because he’d ruined the chances of easy smiles, and friendly dances, when he’d said I love you.
    As the photographer came toward them and the crowd of dancers seemed to close in tighter, Emily ended up pressed tightly enough to Michael to feel every nuance of his muscles beneath his suit. She knew he was in great shape from his construction work and the run he went for every afternoon—and she might have even secretly daydreamed about a moment like this in the past. But right now the last thing she could do was give in to her secret longings for him.
    She tried to put some space between them, but the photographer immediately scolded her. “You look like you don’t even want to dance with him when you pull back like that. It will be a terrible picture for your sister and her husband, and I know you can’t possibly want that, can you?”
    Oh, brother . Yes, the photographers definitely thought they were in charge. But because she didn’t want to ruin her sister’s wedding, she had no choice but to move close to Michael again. Back into his strong arms, so close that she could feel his heart beating against hers and breathe in his clean, masculine scent.
    “Do they need to take quite so many photographs of us?” Emily muttered.
    “You’re Morgan’s eldest sister and maid of honor. Of course they’re going to want plenty of pictures of you. Besides,” he said in a low tone that simmered all along her spine, “you’re the most beautiful woman here.”
    Yet again, he stunned her. Both with his words and the sheer longing in them. A longing he was no longer trying to hide.
    “Morgan is the most beautiful woman here,” she replied, wishing her voice didn’t sound quite so breathless. It wasn’t okay to be breathless around Michael. For so long she’d succeeded at pushing away her desire for him. Today of all days, she couldn’t finally break. “She’s the bride. It’s the rule.”
    “Rules are made to be broken.”
    A few moments later, when the announcer cut in to say that they’d reached the end of the dance photography, Emily knew it had been a really close shave. Because she couldn’t have spent another moment in Michael’s arms, not when all of her secret longings were bubbling up from moment to moment. Unfortunately, as if Murphy’s Law were the rule of the day, the wedding planner had another message.
    “If we could have everyone in the bride’s family, and their partners, over by the arbor, we just have a handful more shots to take.”
    Steeling herself not to do anything to ruin her sister’s big day, she let Michael hold her hand as they walked over to the arrangement of chairs by the roses. Morgan and Brian were seated in the middle, and everyone else was on either side of them. Her sisters were next to the men they loved, and Emily was next to Michael.
    Emily had helped plan these pictures with Morgan. She had agreed that it made sense for her and Michael to sit together. But that was before.
    Everything felt different now. After I love you .
    Morgan and Brian were so perfectly happy today, and of course, Emily wished them every happiness in the future. But at the same time, she knew as well as anyone how quickly that happiness could be snatched away. How easily love could leave the kind of gaping hole it had left in her father after her mother’s death...and how horribly unhappy it had made him.
    She felt Michael’s hand slide over hers. “Emily?” His voice was low enough that only she could hear it. “You look upset. You’ve looked upset ever since you danced with your father.”
    She knew she should be keeping a perfect smile on her face for the pictures. But how could she when