Can't Buy Me Love by Heather Macallister

Author:Heather Macallister
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

7

“HEY! WAKE UP!”

Sunshine blinked and forced her eyes all the way open. Rosebud stood over her.

“Sorry, I fell asleep on your couch. I know you like to read here.”

“Never mind that,” Rosebud said. “While you were sleeping, your groom took a powder.”

“What?”

“He left.”

Sunshine sat bolt upright. “Left as in left?”

Rosebud nodded. “He’s gone.”

“Where’s Alexis?”

“She’s still here wandering around and trying to avoid the cute one.”

Sunshine winced. She felt hung over.

“What are you going to do?”

“Let me think.” Thinking was hard. She needed a couple of years more sleep. Sunshine closed her eyes just to clarify her thoughts.

Rosebud poked her. “You appeared in front of someone other than your assigned couple, didn’t you? That’s why you’re so tired,” she whispered.

She needn’t have bothered whispering. Miss Arlotta would still be able to hear her. “It was that Dylan, wasn’t it? I can’t believe you chanced it. I mean he’s a good-looking one, but you only have to help this last couple and you’ll get to go to the Eternal Picnic.”

“It’s okay. It was business. He’s in love with Alexis and I’m afraid she’s in love with him, too.” Sunshine filled Rosebud in on last night.

Rosebud was nodding when Sunshine finished. “I think you’re right.”

Sunshine didn’t want to hear that, especially from Rosebud, because Rosebud was very smart and very seldom wrong. “Why? What happened?”

“Only that they stood right here in this room and looked at each other making goo-goo eyes while their little hearts went pitter-patter. And now they’re trying to avoid each other.”

“Not that. It never works. Where are they?”

Rosebud took her hand. “In the ballroom.” By the time she finished talking, they were there in time to see Dylan walk in on Alexis and the wedding coordinator.

“Ooh, feel those sparks.”

Sunshine sighed. “Well, shoot patoot.”

Rosebud patted her arm before drifting away. “If there’s a wedding tomorrow, you’ll deserve that trip to the Great Picnic.”

Sunshine took in the expression on Dylan’s face, the awkwardness, and the increasingly bleak look on Alexis’s face.

The air was thick with sexual longing.

Ha. Now that was something Sunshine understood. Well, well. It appeared that Alexis had the right idea, but the wrong man. And it was up to Sunshine to help her figure it out. Before tomorrow.

THE PIANO HAD BEEN MOVED in here and Dylan had thought the ballroom would be empty.

Once he’d decided to forget about a future with Alexis, he thought seeing her would be easier, not more difficult.

“I was looking for the piano,” he explained.

“They moved it in here for tomorrow.” Alexis stated the obvious.

Behind Alexis, Tracy was pouting at him because he hadn’t called her. He’d forgotten all about Tracy.

“I was in town and found a book of Tin Pan Alley sheet-music reproductions.” He held it up so Alexis wouldn’t think he’d been stalking her.

“Go ahead.” She gestured toward the piano. “You won’t bother us.”

But she would bother him.

Dylan sat down and turned to the table of contents. And there they were. Song titles from 1895–1920 that summed up his life right now: “I Can’t Tell You Why I Love You But I Do.

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