'Til Death Do Us Part by Eliza Daly

Author:Eliza Daly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crimson Romance

Chapter Sixteen

Cassidy walked up the porch steps of the funeral home. She tightened the velvet shawl around her, Ryan’s musky scent lingering on the fabric.

What if Ryan’s apology was for kissing her, not for taking the call?

Outside of a physical attraction powerful enough to light the entire city of Milwaukee, they had nothing in common. Not only was she the opposite of Veronica and the other women Ryan dated, she was opposite of the type of woman she was determined to match him up with. And now that Nick knew her matchmaker role, she had to find Ryan the perfect woman.

She marched inside with renewed determination and upstairs to find Lucy in the kitchen. She had zero desire to discuss the preliminary applications or anything remotely associated with finding Ryan’s fiancée.

“I’m home. Going to bed. See ya in the morning.” She headed down the hallway.

“Wait a sec,” Lucy called out, following her into her bedroom. “You can’t go to bed and leave me hanging. I want to hear all about tonight. How was everybody dressed? What did they serve? And why are you home already?”

Cassidy grabbed the pink hatbox from under her bed. She removed the box’s tattered lid. There it sat. Her childhood hopes and dreams. The wedding album she’d created lovingly from scratch when ten years old. Cream parchment paper pages were accented with doilies and stickers of doves, bells, and other symbols of love. More planning than she’d done for her and Nick’s wedding, which should have told her something.

“I’m probably the only woman who completed her wedding album before she was old enough to date.” And she’d have died if Ryan had discovered it.

“A lot of women save ideas for their wedding. I did.”

“I started this when I was ten. I had my picture taken in my mom’s wedding gown. She used to let me play dress up in it. That’s how little she cared about it.” She gestured to the photo of her in a wedding dress on the cover. “Brad Pitt in a tux superimposed in the picture alongside me isn’t a bit strange?”

Lucy twisted her mouth around, searching for a response. “You guys make a really cute couple.”

The album’s first page displayed sample invitations announcing her marriage to various prospective grooms, such as Bruce Willis and Johnny Depp. The next page had a photo of her with a young Pierce Brosnan superimposed, cutting a six-tier cake. Whoa. She’d likened Ryan to the actor.

Cassidy slammed the album shut. The photo of her in the wedding dress glared up at her. She removed it from the slot and ripped it in half.

She marched into the kitchen, Lucy trailing behind. She retrieved a box of matches from the cupboard.

“What are you doing?” Lucy grabbed the album from her hand. “Give me that. You’re going to set off the smoke alarm. I’ll destroy it for you. I’ll take it over to the main funeral home and use the crematory.”

Even cremating it wouldn’t kill the memories of Cassidy’s delusional dreams.

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