I heard her try to suppress a laugh. “Vick, you know I can’t.”
“Um, you can. You are his sister-in-law.” A thought popped in my head. “Hey! Part of that company is technically yours now. Oh my God, girl. Get your own department out from under him.”
“He’s not so bad. He just takes work very, very seriously.”
“Too seriously.”
She stayed quiet, which I knew meant she fully agreed.
“All right. Want to go find that vase in the chaos that is Chicago?”
It took us an hour to meet at HomeGoods but when we walked in together, we sighed like we’d been deprived for years. Our eyes probably sparkled with delight as we tried to scope out all the deals at once.
“Okay,” I stepped in front of Aubrey before we started. “We have to find a vase. That is the goal.”
She nodded as her eyes bounced around the store. “Yup. Beautiful vase will be found.”
I turned to the purses, and my mouth practically salivated. “If we find a few other things, no one can blame us.”
Aubrey laughed. “Right.” It was her turn to step in front of me. She didn’t blink her big green eyes at all when she said, “And no one can blame you if you share your secret about Jett with me either.”
If I looked away, she’d know there was more to the story. “I don’t know what you’retalkingabout.”
She stomped her foot. “Come on! I keep a good secret.”
“There’s no secret to keep.”
“I’m the worst liar, Vick. You aren’t much better.”
My mouth dropped. “That’s so rude!”
She looked up to the ceiling. “I know! I’m sorry.”
I was about to tell her it was all right.
“But I’m not really sorry.” She wrapped her arm around my waist and we both turned to look at a very nice purse. “We only have each other here in this big city. Katie only visits once in a while, and she’s not much good as a confidante. I’m your very best friend here. Like this beautiful purse, I’m one in a million.”
I looked down at her, narrowing my eyes a little. “I agree that you’re one in a million, Brey.”
“And you also agree that you don’t want to lose your one-in-a-million best shopping partner?”
“When did you get so ruthless?”
“When I married the love of my life and figured out I hated staying inside my little box.”
I sighed. She saw me conceding and her face lit up like a Christmas tree. “You can’t tell anyone.”
She didn’t squeal or jump for joy. Aubrey didn’t do things like that. She nodded solemnly. “I definitely won’t tell anyone,” She winced a little. “Pretty sure Jax already knows though.”
I rolled my eyes and grabbed the purse to throw in our cart. “I deserve this handbag for sharing all my crap with you today.”
We strolled around the store and put way too many things in that cart as I told her every dumb detail about my encounters with Jett.
She might have squealed once or twice.
“He’s so frickin’ good in bed, Brey. Like fireworks and explosions good. I want to fuck him all day. And yet, he’s sort of the worst human being ever.”
Her gaze wandered to the candy in the aisle as we stood in the checkout line. “Everyone has their demons. You know that.”