It Started With Paris by Cathy Kelly

Author:Cathy Kelly [Kelly, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2014-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

The course of true love never did run smooth. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

In the car on the way to the Golden Vanilla Cake Shop, Katy was fretting.

‘I don’t know if you can get a wedding cake made that fast,’ she said anxiously. ‘It’s like getting a wedding dress made quickly. You have to pay a fortune extra. Of course I know Dad can pay a fortune extra, but what if she says no? Because the whole plan was that we wanted a really special cake and they mightn’t be able to organise one at such short notice …’

Sitting calmly beside her in the driver’s seat, Michael reached over and put a comforting hand on hers. There was no doubt that the pregnancy hormones were having a strange effect on Katy. She had never been highly strung, but lately she seemed to go from totally exhausted to wildly excited and full of energy with a bit of anxiety thrown in for good measure.

‘We shouldn’t have told people I was pregnant so early,’ she fretted. ‘I must have been mad, completely mad. Most people don’t tell until three months and I told everyone immediately.’

Michael had tried pointing out that because her pregnancy was going to have a big effect on the wedding, they’d had no alternative.

‘But what if not everyone can come to the wedding, all the people we want to come?’ was Katy’s tearful response.

‘All the people who are important to us will be there,’ Michael had said.

He managed to get a parking space outside the cake shop. Katy had passed the premises many times as she walked around the town, but they’d chosen it chiefly because they’d tasted the chocolate biscuit cake at their friends’ wedding and it had been simply magnificent. Beautifully decorated, utterly original and delicious.

The exterior of the shop was just as magnificent: two bow windows painted cream, with a cream and old gold sign shaped like a five-tier bridal cake hanging over the door.

The window displays were straight out of a fairy tale: cakes sitting in gold and white domed cake stands, an old birdcage painted antique gold with little white doves hanging off it, peering down at a curlicued cake with crimson flowers trailing down like a bride’s bouquet. A modern cake made like an A-frame handbag and decorated with red lips, along with displays of scores of tiny, perfectly decorated cupcakes, showed the other side of the company’s design scope.

A tinkling bell announced their arrival, and Katy clutched her fiancé’s arm in delight. ‘I love it,’ she whispered. ‘It’s so romantic.’

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