Forever Wanted: Part One: A Contemporary Runaway Bride Romance by Dee Palmer

Author:Dee Palmer [Palmer, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Part One
Publisher: Dee Palmer
Published: 2019-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

I PARK MY GRAMPA’S FORD next to the long line of expensive sports cars and top of whatever range convertibles. Even if my insurance company decides to give me a full valuation to replace my car, I couldn’t ever imagine buying something so impractical. The personalized license plates give me a shuddering snapshot of who’s inside the pristine colonial mansion of my soon-to-be sister-in-law. Bonny Mason has gone all out.

Each of the twenty-four windows on the front elevation is decorated with large pink paper lanterns, and I can guess it’s the same round the back. The mile long drive is illuminated with hundreds of flaming torches, and the avenue of ancient oak trees that frame the lawn and lead to the sweeping drive in front of the house of Kurt’s older brother Chet, have massive church candles around the base. Unfortunately, the flickering flames cast shadows on the underside of the branches thick with hanging Spanish moss, which are more suited to Halloween and send an ominous shiver up and down my spine.

I don’t want to be here.

Not that it seems to matter. Like so many things with this wedding, I’m surviving on autopilot, a mute autopilot for the most part. It’s not my day; it’s theirs, all of them: Kurt, his family, his extended family, business associates, his friends, my friends. It’s the event of the decade, and I feel utter dread in the pit of my constantly churning stomach.

In truth, before, I didn’t really mind, even in the beginning when Kurt’s mother steamrollered every single decision I made,., I was both numb and content to go along with it all. It made her happy, and that pleased Kurt. I felt like a voyeur most of the time, peeking in on someone else’s moments of joy, and in my heart, I liked that I was responsible for that. I gleaned some pleasure from it, and it was enough. That was before.

Now, the smile I fix hurts and takes every bit of my energy to keep in place. It falters, and every day, it’s getting harder and harder to pretend. My head is a mess. The violent storm of emotions raging inside has me balancing on a knife-edge. I am sick with the weight of the lies. Every day is a fresh hell of fake smiles and trying to act ‘normal’. The wedding is next week, and I’m struggling to find it in me to care enough to even try. Time has become my nemesis. Pink and I share something I’ve never had with anyone, an easy silence, a connection and sense of truly belonging with another soul, something so rare I long for it with every fiber of my being.

Bonny offered to organize my bachelorette party way back when I first got engaged, and like everything else, it was all agreed without me actually saying yes. I know this isn’t for my benefit, yet here I am. It’s mostly her friends, there’s even a few coming that openly dislike me, and Patty, the only close girlfriend I have outside of this small town, isn’t coming.

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