Chapter 4
Brandon loosened his tie and rolled his neck, loosening the muscles to which the tie loosely connected. He wore a suit and tie five days a week, literally each and every day of his professional life. This shouldn’t be uncomfortable for him. It shouldn’t feel awkward. It shouldn’t be weird. It should be just like any other day, just better. This was, after all, a happy occasion. Tony and Lisa’s rehearsal dinner—the only occasion more important, as far as he was concerned, was the main event, the wedding itself.
He checked himself out in the mirror. Should he have gone perfectly clean-shaven, or was that little bit of stubble okay? He liked the little shadow over his face. Too much of a beard made him look like a mountain man, a goatee made him look like Jafar from Aladdin, but a
