A Vineyard Vow (The Vineyard Sunset Series Book 6) by Katie Winters

Author:Katie Winters [Winters, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sisters fiction, mothers fiction, Womens Fiction, clean and wholesome fiction, contemporary romance, small town romance
Publisher: Katie Winters
Published: 2021-01-04T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

It was now Wednesday. Amanda blinked at the date on the calendar, as though it had betrayed her. But no: time moved on, whether you liked it or not, and here she was, living out the first week she had been meant to be Chris’s wife. And still, days after the wedding, she hadn’t spoken a single word to her no longer groom-to-be.

Amanda stood alone at the Sheridan house. She wore the same ratty t-shirt she’d donned that Saturday night after she had returned from the hospital; her sweatpants had a wine stain along with a little melted cheese and even some chocolate across the right knee. Her normally gorgeous hair, which she kept up impeccably, had been tied in a messy bun and she no longer knew the blissfulness of a shower.

Is this how I’ll live out the rest of my life? A complete and utter mess? Sweatpant-chic? Jilted bride couture?

Amanda sprayed cleaning solution across the counter and began to wipe a washcloth across it. Admittedly, she had already cleaned this counter twice that morning, but she just needed to do something, anything with her hands. After this, she would rearrange the fridge for the fourth time and maybe go through the front closet to see what could be thrown out. But then what? Clean every window in the entire house? That would probably take days. It was perfect. Maybe she could milk it for a full week.

When the doctor had announced that Wes just needed several days of bed rest at the hospital, followed by several weeks of rest back at the Sheridan house, the Sheridan and Montgomery families had breathed a collective sigh of relief and returned to their homes. According to reports from Brittany and Piper, Amanda and Chris’s wedding reception had raged on into the night. “It was one of the best parties I’ve been to in years,” is what Brittany had said. Sometimes, Brittany could be tone-deaf; this was one of those cases.

Still, Amanda was glad that some people had enjoyed her wedding.

Apparently, the groomsmen had dug into the glorious wedding cake that Christine had baked for her, smashing one another in the face with it.

Truthfully, Amanda had never really liked Chris’s friends.

Maybe this was proof that she and Chris hadn’t really been meant to...

No. She wasn’t ready to say that yet.

After she hadn’t heard anything from Chris on Saturday evening and then into Sunday morning, Amanda had turned off her cell phone and hadn’t bothered to turn it back on. This annoyed her mother to no end, but it was her twenty-first-century version of “hiding from the world.” This way, she couldn’t ogle the Instagram photos people had posted from her “wedding.” She couldn’t know what Chris was up to. And best of all: nobody could contact her. Not Chris, not her friends, and not anybody who had “words of pity.” She didn’t have time for it.

All she had time to do, right here and now, was clean every single square inch of the Sheridan house.

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