Desert Kings - A Christmas Wedding by Jennifer Lewis

Author:Jennifer Lewis [Lewis, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary romance sheikh family saga interracial Christmas Wedding Holiday Short story
Publisher: Mangrove
Published: 2014-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Sam felt really strange getting dressed when Osman wasn’t even back yet. She’d tried calling again but he didn’t answer. She refused to even contemplate that anything bad had happened. Besides, in that case someone would call her.

Wouldn’t they?

Her dress hung on the bed frame, still in the bag from the dressmaker. She hadn’t even dared look at it because it was too late to make changes now.

She dabbed pale gold eye shadow on her eyelid and started to apply eyeliner. She wasn’t very good with makeup, but it did make people look better in pictures and she wanted the photos to be memorable.

Festive music rang through the palace, and she could hear the happy shrieks of children. She’d insisted that all the staff bring their children today, and she had gifts for everyone. She’d always hated how children often weren’t welcome at weddings, and had always vowed to include them, even if that made things a little noisier.

She couldn’t wait to have her own children. Osman would be such a wonderful father, and it would be nice for him to have the chance to create the happy family he never got to enjoy.

A knock on the door made her smudge the eyeliner. “Osman!” Her heart leapt.

“I’m sorry. It’s just me.” Ronnie peeked around the door. “My dress fits.” Her dress was stunning. With her hair in a lovely updo, decorated with little white flowers, she looked so radiant that Sam wanted to cry.

“Don’t cry!” Ronnie rushed toward her. “You’ll smudge your makeup. Here, let me finish that.” She expertly drew a line above Sam’s lashes. “How does your dress look?”

“I haven’t dared find out.” She glanced at the hanger. “I suppose it’s now or never.”

Ronnie retrieved the hanger while Sam put in some delicate pearl earrings that her grandmother had worn on her wedding day. Outside the bag the dress looked foolishly ornate and fluffy, like something the girl on top of a cake would wear.

“Put it on,” scolded Ronnie gently. “Osman will be here any second.”

“He’ll need to get dressed, too.”

“You know he can do pretty much anything in thirty seconds. He’s infuriatingly capable.” Ronnie winked.

“Not everything,” said Sam with a sly smile. “Some things take at least a few minutes. But now you’ve distracted me. Let me get this on.”

She poked her toes carefully into the pool of white tulle and Ronnie helped her lift the bodice up to her chest. “Goodness, it’s heavier than I expected.”

“All the seed beads. They’re so lovely. They must have taken hours to sew.” Beads of ice white, pale ivory and frosty silver swirled in a beautiful pattern that covered the bodice and dripped down onto the full skirt. Sam pulled the bodice up over her breasts and Ronnie went behind her to zip it up.

Sam felt Ronnie tug gingerly up to her waist, then stop.

“What’s wrong?”

“Hmm. There’s a big gap. Let me pull the two sides together a bit.” Sam felt her yank on them, then tug again at the zipper.

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