Four Weddings and a Fiasco Boxed Set by Lucy Kevin

Author:Lucy Kevin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Oak Press, LLC
Published: 2016-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

By the end of the day, Phoebe was so exhausted from working on the garden that she felt like she could sleep for a week. Yet as she looked around, seeing the difference that she had made to the flower garden along with her mother, it was easy to think that it had all been worth the effort.

“So,” Patrick asked, coming back from getting rid of the last of the tree stump, “did you have fun today?”

Phoebe was surprised to find that she had. It had been fun spending the day doing something worthwhile, even if it had taken a lot of effort.

Maybe because it had taken so much effort.

“I did,” she said with a small smile, suddenly feeling shy around Patrick.

“How about you, Angela?”

“Just as long as I don’t have to do it all over again tomorrow,” her mother replied, but she was smiling too.

Phoebe hadn’t seen many smiles from her since she showed up at her apartment. Clearly, a day out in the fresh air had done her some good. That or a day around Patrick.

She had been impressed with the way Patrick had persuaded her mother to help, and coaxed her into assisting with the remains of the tree. He’d made a real effort, but he hadn’t intruded on a situation it would have been easy to make worse.

“RJ tells me there’s a small party for the volunteers over by the tent. It would be great if you could both come after putting so much effort in.”

“We’d love to, wouldn’t we, Phoebe?” her mother said before Phoebe could make up an excuse to leave.

Knowing there wasn’t much of a chance of stopping her mother now, she settled for putting away her gardening gear in the car before she headed over to the tent. Patrick did the same, walking over to his brother’s waiting truck with the axe and the shovel he’d been using.

“Will your mother be okay?” he asked.

“Oh, she’ll be fine,” she said, even though the truth was her mother had never been able to hold her liquor…which was made worse by the fact that she thought she could.

Knowing it wouldn’t look good if she sprinted over to check on her mother, Phoebe briskly walked across the lawn, glad for her hiking boots. In the tent the volunteers were enjoying themselves with BBQ chicken and drinks from a couple of large coolers.

RJ intercepted them. “Thanks for coming out today. You’ve made a real difference to that flower garden.”

“It wasn’t just me,” Phoebe said, looking past RJ to see if she could spot her mother.

“Your mom seems great, by the way.”

Phoebe tried to smile. “She is great, thanks. Have you seen her?”

RJ turned to look for Angela. “She was just here a second ago. Is everything okay?”

What could she do but nod? “Sure.”

“Why don’t you relax and have something to eat?” he said and before she knew it she found herself eating a BBQ chicken sandwich while caught up in a conversation with a couple who were just in the middle of landscaping their own garden and had heard she was a plant expert.

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