Engaged at The Chatsfield by Melanie Milburne

Author:Melanie Milburne [Milburne, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Contemporary romance
ISBN: 9781472094971
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2014-04-08T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

JULIET WAS DETERMINED not to be the first to leave the nightclub party. She danced with the girls until her feet were aching and her ears were ringing from the loud music. She was having fun. Of course she was. She was out partying with her friends. Marcus could think what he liked.

Kendra came over with a cocktail in one hand and party streamers in the other. ‘Have you seen Harriet?’ she asked.

Juliet scanned the dance floor. It was a pulsating mass of scantily clad female bodies with some impressive male ones doing all sorts of gyrations she thought were anatomically impossible. ‘Not recently. She might have gone to the ladies’ room. Do you want me to find her for you?’

‘No, that’s okay.’ Kendra sat on the leather love seat beside her and eased her feet out of her stilettoes. ‘God, my feet are killing me.’

‘Same.’

Kendra wriggled her neatly manicured toes. ‘Can I ask you something?’

Juliet glanced at her but she was still looking at her feet. ‘Sure.’

The leather squeaked as Kendra turned to look at her. ‘How did you know Marcus was The One?’

Juliet had no trouble thinking of an answer. It was just there. In her head. In her heart. How had she not realised it until now? ‘I just knew. I think maybe I’ve always known on some subconscious level. But the first time he kissed me sealed it.’

Kendra’s smile had a touch of wistfulness about it. ‘You’re lucky.... To be so certain, I mean.’

Juliet looked at her with a frown. ‘And you’re not? About Hugh?’

Kendra let out a sigh and directed her gaze back to her feet. ‘I don’t know.... It felt so right when he proposed. But now with the wedding just a week away I’m not so sure.’

‘Maybe it’s just wedding jitters.’

‘Maybe.’

A silence slipped past...not that it was really a silence given the loud music thumping in the background.

Juliet wondered what had brought on Kendra’s uncertainty. She was normally such a confident, outgoing type. Juliet had always envied Kendra’s self-possession and poise. Kendra had been Head Girl at school. She was Head Girl wherever she went. She was rich and beautiful and popular. She had a fiancé who loved her. A real fiancé. Hugh Pritchard was gorgeous and successful and had dated Kendra for three and a half years. He wasn’t a phantom fiancé who would disappear on Monday morning.

‘I wish I hadn’t asked Harriet to be my maid of honour,’ Kendra said.

Juliet wondered if it was the alcohol talking. Kendra had been knocking back the cocktails with gay abandon and Juliet hadn’t seen her eat a thing all evening. ‘What makes you say that?’

She lifted one of her thin, spray-tanned shoulders in a little shrug. ‘I don’t know...I guess I thought she’d do a good job.’

‘She is doing a good job.’

‘I know but it’s not like I’m close to her. I mean really close.’

‘I thought you were best friends?’

Kendra turned the engagement ring on her finger a couple of times. ‘She’s so.

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