I Was A Vampire Wedding Planner by Alecia Monaco

Author:Alecia Monaco
Language: eng
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Somehow, Jade managed to get through the hours until dawn. She went home to her beautifully decorated apartment. Had it ever seemed so empty before?

Even Tuesday seemed to sense something was wrong, hiding under Jade’s bed until she threw up a hairball.

Jade sat on her window seat and watched the sun rise in an artist’s palette of pink and gold. Somewhere out there, Renaldi had escaped into the sleep of the dead, while she, the living, had to somehow go on, even with her heart shattered like a china cup smashed against a wall.

“I have no one to blame but myself, Tuesday,” she said when her pet finally emerged from beneath the bed. Tuesday answered with an affirming meow and jumped up to join her on the window seat. “I let myself believe in things again.” She stroked the cat’s calico fur. “Things like love and passion… things that were meant for the size two girls of the world.” She gazed outside at the sun taking its place in a rapidly brightening sky. “I’ll be okay, won’t I?” She looked down into Tuesday’s questioning yellow eyes. “We’ll get through this together.” She sighed. “Don’t we always?”

When would she learn to stop hoping? She’d spent years trying to snuff out the hope that love would find her, but it was a candle that couldn’t be dimmed, no matter how much she tried to douse its flame.

Why couldn’t her heart accept that she would always be the wedding planner, and never the bride?

And why had a few minutes in Renaldi’s arms made her feel as if she’d finally found her own slice of heaven on earth?

Alecia Monaco

I Was A Vampire Wedding Planner

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She’d had a taste of happiness that the angels themselves would envy. Somehow, she had to go on with her life as if it hadn’t happened, as if it hadn’t split her world in two. But how?

* * *

“For you.” Avery slapped a stack of pink slips onto the desk blotter in front of her.

Jade shot him a glance. “Do they have anything to do with the wedding?”

Avery’s mouth stretched into a tight line. “Nope.”

“Then I don’t need to see them.” She grabbed up the messages and dumped them into the wastebasket at her feet.

“How long is this going to go on?” Avery folded his arms over his chest.

“Until Renaldi gets it through his undead head that we’re over.” Her mouth turned down. “We never actually started.”

“He doesn’t seem to share your point of view.” Avery perched on the edge of her desk. “He’s been calling every night for a week now.”

“He can call until hell freezes over and Satan sells snow cones.” Jade flipped through her appointment book at a razor sharp pace. “I have no desire to see him.”

“Sure you don’t.” Avery gave her a knowing look. “How many boxes of chocolates have you eaten this week?”

Her gaze shot up to his face. “What do you know about it?”

He shrugged. “Even your special PMS reserve is empty.

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