Fifteen Minutes of Summer by Wardell Heather

Author:Wardell, Heather [Wardell, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction
Publisher: Heather Wardell
Published: 2015-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

Part Two

Chapter Twenty-Four

When the taxi driver got me home after I’d fled the wedding, I managed to hold myself together long enough to get out of the car and into my apartment. Once there, though, I fell onto my couch and completely fell apart as my exhaustion and sadness took me over.

I’d tried so hard, so stupidly hard, to fix my mistake. Of course I shouldn’t have told Simon any details about the wedding, but I had genuinely not realized Kent and MC were going to turn down a million dollars for its coverage. Ever since, I’d been doing everything I could think of to protect them.

Everything I could think of, and something with Simon I would never have thought I’d do.

My stomach lurched at the memory and I pushed myself to my feet and got some water from the kitchen. After one sip, I set it down and got wine instead. Water wasn’t going to cut it.

I spent hours, as the sky gradually darkened into night outside my window, drinking wine and crying and trying to imagine what had happened after I left.

Did Kent and MC get married? I couldn’t believe they hadn’t because I knew how happy they both were to be together, and yet she’d been so upset that I also couldn’t see how they’d have managed it without her crying throughout the ceremony. Her wedding day memories would be of disaster, thanks to me.

At least the reception, assuming the wedding had gone ahead, had been in the gorgeous party room at MC’s dad’s security-conscious condo building, so Mimi wouldn’t have been able to get in after dealing with her speeding ticket. But she could have figured out where it was and be lurking outside right now harassing everyone who went in or out for information.

I hated that I didn’t know what was happening, and I reached for my phone several times to send texts to ask. But who would talk to me now? Who would answer my messages when they’d all either glared at me or turned away from me? I was desperate to know exactly how horrible things were, and terrified to know too, and I agonized over it all until I couldn’t cry another tear. I felt empty, dried out and dead, and lost.

When my phone rang, I lunged for it in a sudden hope, then dropped it on the couch in disgust when I saw Simon’s number on the screen.

He left me a voicemail, and after another glass of wine I managed to make myself check it.

“Hey, Red, you look hot when you’re screaming at people, you know. Mimi just got out of the police station, because those bastards held her there forever, and emailed me a few pictures.” He chuckled, while I hoped that maybe the wedding and reception had gone ahead while Mimi was detained. “I bet you’re mad I changed our agreement and had Mimi go to the wedding, but hey, you did it first. We investigated and the honeymoon resort you told me about is closed for repairs.

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