Kate had obviously noticed the same thing. Her blue eyes narrowed as she leaned towards Sharon almost threateningly.

“Sharon.” Kate drawled Sharon’s name, her voice heavy with a warning that Sharon completely ignored.

“Oh hey! Good, Brian’s here,” Sharon said, as if Kate hadn’t spoken. She started to get up from her bar stool.

Huffing out a resigned sigh, Kate pointed a finger at her. “Okay, but as soon as you ask him to go to the wedding, you and I are going to have a talk about this.”

“Wait, go to what wedding?” Jake asked before he could think about it, more than a little taken aback. Was Sharon inviting her ex to Kate’s wedding? No, that couldn’t be right, that was way too far away. So was Justin, Chris, and Jessica’s.

And why the hell was Sharon inviting her ex to a wedding right in front of Jake?

“My cousin’s,” Sharon said with a sigh, shifting back and forth on her feet as she eyed him. Her expression was fairly blank, but he could see the warning in her eyes. If they didn’t want their friends to know anything was going on between them, he needed to let it go. Hell, he needed to have not said anything in the first place, because he could practically feel the change in all of them even though he was deliberately not looking at any of them. “It’s in a couple of weeks and I need a date.”

“So you’re inviting your ex?” Yeah, he was not doing a good job of keeping his cool, but he was finding it hard to care that everyone was now looking between him and Sharon with various degrees of confusion and speculation. They might not be in a relationship, but he still couldn’t help but feel a little insulted.

Okay, he could admit it, he felt a little possessive too. He didn’t like the idea of her taking her most recent ex to a family wedding. Why he felt that way... Well, he wasn’t going to examine that too closely. They were having sex, after all. A lot of it. It made sense that he would feel a bit possessive.

“Why do you care?” Lexie asked, leaning forward to catch his eye. She was sitting on Patrick’s lap and his best friend was smirking from behind her.

“Yeah, why do you care?” Andrew chimed in from the other side of the table, crossing his arms over his chest.

Jake ignored both of them, looking directly at Sharon. “Can I talk to you for a second?”

The look she gave him was pure exasperation, her answer laced with barely repressed annoyance. “Yeah, sure, why not.”