His Christmas Angel by Mathews Marly

Author:Mathews, Marly [Mathews, Marly]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Marly Mathews
Published: 2015-12-05T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Ann managed to survive the rest of the elaborate meal, and when Clarence suggested they all retire to the Ballroom to have some merriment and wedding cake, her nervousness almost conquered her. She couldn’t imagine how she would continue to drink, dance and be merry. She felt filled to the brim with food, and ready to explode! That was the secret to her mother’s soirées. She had always advised Ann to eat a light repast before anything that would require exercise to not feel weighted down. She wished she had followed her mother’s advice instead of falling prey to the Cook’s tasty concoctions. Her dishes were far superior to the food that the Hardwicke family cook made.

They walked into the Ballroom, and she inhaled her breath. The servants, those not attending to them during their dinner must have been busy little bees. Every candle on the beautiful chandeliers had been lit. It lacked any greenery, as decorations weren’t usually put up until Christmas Eve, but the flowers that had decorated the majestic room for the wedding ceremony remained, along with several kissing boughs, trimmed with mistletoe hanging from various areas in the ballroom. She wondered if Clarence worried about inviting bad luck into the house because he had put mistletoe up before Christmas Eve.

There would be a lot of unsuspecting maidens being kissed tonight—and a few suspecting ones would probably ‘find’ themselves under the mistletoe to steal a kiss, hopefully from the fellow they had their heart set on. They hung far too high up for anyone to pluck the berries, thus ending the kissing game.

It felt almost magical, as if she had wondered into a beautiful fairyland. The candlelight from the magnificent crystal chandeliers haloed the expansive room in a romantic light. This Ballroom was bigger than the Ballroom back at Broadway House, and she hadn’t had much time to study it before she had married Clarence, and during the ceremony, she hadn’t been able to think of anything else, but Clarence. The Ballroom was so large, they had set up a refreshment table at the far end of it, and on the table was their wedding cake.

She didn’t relish taking a taste of cake. She didn’t care much for marzipan icing, and the cake was beautifully decorated with it.

“Oh, that is a lovely cake,” Lord Cary said, with Lady Cary on his arm. “You two will have to keep Lady Cary from the icing. She has a supreme fondness for it. Don’t you, dear?” he asked, with a twinkle in his eyes.

Lady Cary smiled. “I confess, it is my one weakness.”

“One of your weaknesses,” Lord Cary pointed out. “I like to think I also fall into that category.”

She sighed. “Yes, Lewis, you do,” she admitted.

Ann felt a thrill at the love that radiated between them. She wished she could say that she felt that way about Clarence. She did feel tenderly toward him, she just couldn’t say definitively that she loved him. She wasn’t even certain if she knew what that kind of love felt like.

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