In-Laws and Outlaws by Kate Fulford

Author:Kate Fulford [Fulford, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: comedy, Contemporary, fiction, humour, Romance, Women's Fiction
ISBN: 9781786080486
Google: gOhXswEACAAJ
Amazon: B07B3WGK2Q
Publisher: Thistle Publishing
Published: 2018-02-26T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

“Does it really matter if they don’t come?” I asked Gideon, on hearing the latest news from his family. It was a few days before wedding two point zero and Marjorie had phoned that morning to say that she wouldn’t be coming. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to come, she had explained, it was that she simply couldn’t. She was, she professed, delighted to be welcoming me into the family, but she and Helen had had some major falling out which she couldn’t bring herself to talk about, but which precluded her from being in the same room as her daughter, even for Gideon’s sake. I honestly couldn’t have cared less if neither of them came, I just wanted to get married but Gideon didn’t, it seemed, share my feelings. He had therefore invited Marjorie around for coffee in an attempt to get to the bottom of the problem, but we were none the wiser following her visit.

“I simply cannot bear to see your sister, not now, not under any circumstances,” Marjorie had declared when she arrived. “I’m only sorry that you have been caught in the middle of our family’s problems,” she had said turning her attention to me while patting my hand and looking with what I supposed was meant to be infinite regret into my eyes. Looked more like she was about to sneeze from where I was sitting.

“But you won’t have to talk to her Mum.” Gideon pleaded. “You can sit at different ends of the table. Please, for my sake, can’t you put this aside, just for one day?”

“I can’t Gideon, not even for you, and you know that I’d do anything in my power for you,” Marjorie paused to look deeply into Gideon’s eyes. “I’d do anything for you,” she repeated. “But I can’t do that.” I wouldn’t have had Marjorie down as a Meatloaf fan, but she had just quoted the refrain from one of his most famous songs almost word for word, so perhaps she had a hinterland I could never have guessed at.

“I know you would Mum,” Gideon replied. How he could fall for this guff was beyond me. If someone says they would do anything in their power for you and then refuses to sit down for a very few hours in the same room as their own daughter I think you have reason to doubt their sincerity.

“I don’t want to stop your sister coming to your wedding.” Marjorie continued, dabbing at her nose with her ever present tiny hankie. “I know the children are very excited about it, and I wouldn’t want them to miss it on my account.” Her concern for the happiness of her grandchildren was touching, if a little out of character. She had always seemed supremely uninterested in them as far as I could tell. She literally never mentioned them and had barely spoken to them on the one occasion I had seen them together (although that had been at the Christmas dinner when Dominic had rather dominated the conversation).

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