A Wedding to Remember in Charleston, South Carolina by Annalisa Daughety

Author:Annalisa Daughety [Daughety, Annalisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60742-780-3
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-01-15T16:00:00+00:00

Summer sank onto the leather couch and flipped through the DVR to see what she had saved to watch. It was hard to believe there was a time when the DVR was the source of most of the fights between her and Luke. He’d store as many shows as they had memory for, but she liked to keep the list pared down. Especially old sporting events. What was the point of having an old football game saved? He knew the outcome. When he’d find out she’d deleted some old game, he’d get so upset.

Most of their fights had ended in laughter and kisses. Not like now. But she didn’t feel like they were fighting as much as they were simply no longer connecting. Ever since she told Jefferson about their temporary separation, she’d been wondering if it was really temporary.

They’d promised to stay together until death parted them. And she’d always thought those vows were serious. But maybe they weren’t as binding as she’d expected.

She took off her wedding ring and looked at it. She still wore the same ring Luke had given her nearly seven years ago. Even though he’d offered numerous times to buy her a bigger ring, she refused. This one was her. Was them.

She wondered if Luke was still wearing his ring. It had been days now since they’d talked. She’d expected him to call by now.

But her phone stayed silent.

She clicked off the TV and went upstairs. When she got to the top of the stairs, she turned right instead of going to her bedroom. She opened the only closed door down the hallway.

The room that was to have been the nursery.

A wooden rocking chair was the lone piece of furniture in the room. Luke had gotten rid of everything from the nursery except for the rocker. It had been the one his own mother had rocked him in.

She sat in the chair and slowly rocked back and forth, just as she’d always imagined rocking their baby. Even though they’d never found out if she’d carried a boy or a girl, she’d always thought the baby was a boy. She never told Luke though. When he’d ask, she’d smile and say they’d have to wait and see.

But she’d known how much he wanted a son, and she felt in her heart that a son was what they’d lost.

And even though they hadn’t had a real memorial service, there wasn’t a day that Summer didn’t remember her baby. Even if Luke tried to pretend it never happened, Summer knew better. She’d carried that tiny life inside of her, and that was something she could never forget.

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