“Admit it, Jess, that moment gave you the fright of your life, did it not?” Julie taunted, a smirk adorning her face.
“It did not,” Jessica denied immediately, all too soon.
“Right, right,” Julie widened her eyes for effect. “You could have fooled me.”
“And me,” Jack interjected as he bumped his shoulder with his fiancée’s shoulder.
Her only response was blushing anew as the two best friends carried on teasing her.
“Look at the bright side of things, Jess. Had the roles been reversed, Jack would have totally blown a fuse and probably killed the other guy instead,” Julie told her in a conniving tone.
“Hey!” He let out in mock outrage.
“What? It’s true,” Julie rolled her eyes.
Jessica smiled at that, the first bright smile ever since her near-separation with her fiancé three
