I'm Not Her Substitute, and I Make Him Regret Doing It

At my engagement party, Denver's friends asked him what the most thrilling thing he'd ever done was. Some guessed it was when he proposed to me after arranging ten thousand roses on Mount Everest. Others joked it might’ve been the first night we spent together.

Embarrassed by their teasing and worried Denver might overdo it with the booze, I slipped out to buy some hangover pills for him.

I hadn’t gone far when I heard his voice, slow and deliberate, cutting through the laughter.