A Wedding She'll Never Forget by Grady Robyn

Author:Grady, Robyn [Grady, Robyn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780263237917
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Eight

Scarlet took a sip of her ice water, stole a glance at the person sitting opposite. Finally she cleared her throat.

“I haven’t thanked you yet.”

Morgan Tibbs dragged her attention from her Forbes magazine. “This is Daniel’s jet,” she said. “Not mine.”

“I mean for the clothes.” The briefs.

“Oh. Thought they might come in handy.”

Morgan went back to her magazine and Scarlet went back to sipping water.

“Suppose I should feel weird,” Scarlet finally said, “flying halfway around the world with people I barely know in a luxury private jet, but it’s no weirder than what I’ve lived through these past twenty-four hours.”

“The amnesia?”

“Uh-huh.”

Morgan put down her Forbes. “I have an aunt who experienced a fugue state. She worked as a headmistress. When she didn’t show up for duty for a couple of days, a search team went out looking for her. She was found over a hundred miles away, meditating with a peace-loving group who were waiting for aliens to land in the parking lot. My aunt had no clue about her previous life. Seems her husband, who’d faked his own death twenty years earlier, had shown up on her doorstep. The shock set her off.”

“Did her memory come back?”

“Pretty much as soon as they got her home.”

“That didn’t happen for me.”

“No sparks at all?”

“A few things. Sure.”

Morgan ran a finger and thumb over the six studs in her right ear. “Maybe this is your mind’s way of telling you to take a break.”

“I seem to have nice enough parents who obviously care about me. I have a nice home. A good job. From all accounts, great friends.”

“Sounds neat. A great life to go back to.” She lifted her magazine. “And yet here you are, flying away from it all.”

Daniel came strolling down the aisle.

“Morgan, these figures don’t add up. Can you go over the analysis of per capita spread based on age and socioeconomic demographic and let me know if your median is anywhere near mine?”

“Love to.”

Morgan slinked out of her seat, took his laptop and disappeared.

When Scarlet was sure Morgan was out of earshot, she whispered, “Is she being facetious?”

“Always.” Daniel took the seat next to her. “And she’s the best right-hand man/person/woman I’ve ever had.”

Scarlet’s smile faded.

“Daniel, do you think that this amnesia thing could be self-inflicted?”

“What? Like you meant to trip and knock yourself out?”

“Like some part of my brain is purposely forgetting?”

“As vast as our universe is, our brains are just as immeasurable.”

Scarlet drank that in. So he was saying maybe she had, maybe she hadn’t. She didn’t feel as if she was putting on an act. She knew what she knew and the most important thing was that she felt safe with him. She wouldn’t be here if she didn’t. Even if her mother had seemed annoyed that their daughter should upset society by doing what she felt was right.

“I didn’t know you very well,” she said, “did I? And yet my gut tells me you know me better than everyone else combined. Why is that?”

His smile was soothing.

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