The Worst Best Man

Aiden answers a call from an unknown number, and a robotic voice declares that if Aiden gives him what he wants, Chip will be returned. Frankie realizes that the kidnappers want Aiden and are using Chip as a bargaining tool.

Frankie is furious and holds Aiden responsible for Chip’s predicament. She doesn’t agree with his suggestion that they need to pause and think. A teenager named Antonio recognizes their description of Chip’s kidnapper, calling the man Papi. Aiden pays Antonio for his help, and Antonio drives them to Papi’s favorite rum spots.

They find Papi at the bar of his favorite restaurant. While Frankie is buying sandwiches, Papi tells Aiden to go away. While Aiden calls private security, Frankie goes to the bar. She tells Papi that she will show him her breasts if he talks; he agrees. Frankie flashes him, and he tells her that an anonymous man hired him to take Chip to the Rockley Ridge Resort, where there was a lot of security. Frankie tells Aiden that she knows where Chip is. While they eat sandwiches, she takes Aiden’s phone to find out what is happening at the resort. Seeing his search history, she discovers that he has been running a Google search on her. She also learns that the resort is currently closed to the public because an heiress is getting married there. Antonio knows a way to gain access, but Aiden and Frankie will need their wedding clothes to fit in.

A concierge meets them with Frankie’s bridesmaid dress and Aiden’s suit. Antonio drops them off outside the resort. When Aiden boosts Frankie over the wall, she lands badly, ripping her dress. Aiden leads the way through the jungle. They argue as they near the beach, where they can hear the party. Frankie is angry about the entire situation, but when Aiden spontaneously kisses her, they kiss and embrace for a long moment before they are interrupted by a guard.

The guard tells them to stay inside the resort area, and they soon discover that the heiress’s wedding celebration is a drunken disaster. The receptionist behind the desk refuses to give them any information, so Frankie creates a distraction by pushing a drunk woman into a koi pond. In the ensuing chaos, Frankie and Aiden go to the receptionist’s deserted computer. Aiden recognizes the name El-Kil Corporation, which is associated with room 314. They stage a fake argument to distract the returning receptionist. Frankie wants to go to room 314, but Aiden refuses, saying that he needs to make a solid plan.

As Aiden escorts Frankie back to her hotel room, Frankie becomes angry because he is not solving the problem the way she wants him to. He tells her that she was amazing, kisses her, and leaves. Frankie is confused about everything, and her bridesmaid dress is now stained and torn. She texts Pru, who is awake but drunk; Pru tries to convince Frankie that Aiden is the right man for her. Frankie does not have the heart to tell Pru that Chip has been kidnapped. When Pru decides to text Chip, Frankie panics.

Frankie texts Aiden, who annoys her further by insisting that he is dealing with the situation. Aiden texts Pru and tells her that Chip is asleep. The next morning, Chip still has not been returned, and as Frankie spends the day with the bridesmaids, preparing for the wedding, she becomes increasingly anxious when she does not hear from Aiden. Meanwhile, Pru is getting nervous about Chip’s absence even though Aiden has texted her with the lie that he and Chip are out fishing. Margeaux is rude about the hair styles and demands to get her brows waxed as well. She and Frankie get in an argument, and Margeaux tries to belittle Frankie. The stylist waxes Margeaux’s entire brow off in unspoken solidarity with Frankie. Frankie finds Antonio’s calling card in her purse and decides to take direct action to save Chip.

Antonio arrives in his school uniform; he is driving a dune buggy. As he and Frankie speed toward the Rockley Resort, Pru calls to remind Frankie about the scheduled bridesmaid pictures. Frankie lies and claims to be heading for the docks to check on Chip; this makes Pru feel better. Frankie’s mother calls and pesters her about having babies. While Antonio waits, Frankie falls over the resort wall and stumbles across a group of maids having a cigarette break.

The maids help Frankie disguise herself as one of them. They give her information about the man staying in room 314, tell her how to avoid cameras, and advise her to pretend to restock the bar. When Frankie knocks on the door of room 314, an unfamiliar man rudely answers the door. He then gets a call and goes into another room. Frankie tries a closed room and finds Chip on the floor. She thinks he may be dead.

Fortunately, Chip is just sleeping. He and Frankie hear voices outside the door. Chip shuts her in the closet, where she hits her head on a metal safe. She hears Chip telling the kidnapper that Aiden won’t let him get away with his activities. When Chip opens the door, she is surprised and hits her head on the safe again, sustaining a head wound that begins bleeding. Looking out the window, Frankie sees that they are three floors up but can hop to different balconies to get down. Chip cannot tolerate the sight of blood and almost faints when he sees Frankie’s head wound. She makes Chip escape off the balcony and fends off the returning kidnapper by hitting him with an alarm clock. Aiden is standing right behind the kidnapper, and Frankie threatens him with the clock as well. She tells him that he and the kidnapper are too late to catch Chip, who has escaped. However, Chip is just behind her; he says that the next room was occupied and that security has been alerted. When Chip and Aiden greet each other warmly, Frankie is furious and brandishes the clock and refuses to listen when they both reassure her that Aiden did not kidnap Chip. She makes Chip run to the basement. They climb the wall and get in Antonio’s dune buggy. Upon hearing Pru’s many frantic voicemails, Frankie makes Chip call and reassure Pru. Behind them is a black SUV with Aiden in the passenger seat.

Chip insists that Aiden wasn’t the kidnapper, but Frankie still refuses to listen. As they run through the hotel and into the elevator, Frankie tries to hit Aiden but becomes aroused when he physically restrains her. Frankie runs to her room and answers the ringing phone. Pru reports that her father and Chip’s father are fighting and that the groomsmen are making bets on who will win. Frankie promises to hurry. Aiden appears at her door, looking fresh and perfect. He gives her a new bridesmaid dress. She dons it quickly as Aiden cleans the blood from her face. She admonishes him for keeping her in the dark about his plan to retrieve Chip, and he explains that he didn’t want her to get mixed up in ugly Kilbourn business. He gives her a smoldering look, and as she runs out of the room, he remembers to grab her shoes for her.

The wedding goes well. Aiden cannot stop watching Frankie throughout the ceremony, although she is clearly still angry at him. He reflects that she is a genuine person, unlike the women he usually dates, and he acknowledges to himself that they have an undeniable mutual attraction. He decides to pursue her even though she does not fit within his lifestyle. Later, when Margeaux insults Frankie, Aiden verbally puts Margeaux in her place, surprising everyone.

He explains to Frankie that his half-brother, Elliot, wants him to vote for a new chief financial officer, whom Aiden believes to be corrupt. Kidnapping Chip was Elliot’s way of trying to force Aiden to acquiesce to his demands. Frankie acknowledges that Aiden was trying to handle the situation but admonishes him for keeping key information from her. She accuses him of taking chances with other people’s happiness. He apologizes and asks what she wants from him.

The photographer makes Frankie and Aiden pose for portraits and highlights their obvious chemistry. Aiden whispers that he wants her both now and when they get home and tells her that he is fully aware of her interest in him as well. She points out his reputation for dating women for a few months at most, but he persists. When she retorts that she may not want a relationship, he asks her to spend the night and then decide, at which point he will give her anything she wants. She says that she cannot be bought and walks away. For the rest of the wedding festivities, Frankie avoids Aiden. When he gets up to make a speech, she is irritated with herself for finding it funny, eloquent, and warm.

Aiden corners Frankie on the dance floor and apologizes to Pru and Chip in front of her. Frankie is shocked at how easily they forgive him. She is also disgusted by how much she desires him. When she asks him why he is attracted to her, he says that he likes a challenge. After some additional verbal sparring, they kiss passionately.

Frankie and Aiden go to Aiden’s room and rip each other’s clothes off. Aiden is surprised at his willingness to let Frankie dominate the situation, and when she performs oral sex, he realizes that “she could break him” (162). He reciprocates, and when they have intercourse, he feels that he is a new, different person and savors their powerful connection. Afterward, Frankie cries because she experienced powerful orgasms.

After they make love several more times, Frankie unintentionally falls asleep in Aiden’s room. When she tries to leave the room, Pru catches her sneaking away. Pru is deeply intoxicated after the wedding activities and asks if Frankie will hold her hair while she pukes. Pru says that she can’t wait to tell this story at Frankie and Aiden’s future wedding. Frankie admits that the sex with Aiden was the best she’s ever had; she had five orgasms in one night. When Frankie mentions that Aiden changes girlfriends every month, Pru waves her worries away.

Later, on the plane home, Frankie tries not to think about the fact that she is running away from Aiden. She assumes that life will go back to normal and that the wedding will amount to little more than a few erotic memories.