Kiss the Bride by Lori Wilde

Author:Lori Wilde [Wilde, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction / Romance - Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781455512676
Google: M350EZAaiR8C
Amazon: 1455512672
Goodreads: 13525989
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2012-05-21T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

Affluence attracts affluence.

Tish Gallagher repeated her mother’s favorite mantra to herself as she wriggled into the skirt of a fifteen-hundred-dollar gray tweed Chanel suit. Her potential client was a banker and quite conservative.

After a quick peek into her closet, she added a lavender silk blouse to the ensemble. The color complimented her deep auburn hair. She removed four earrings from the multiple piercings in her ears, leaving only a single pair of simple gold studs. She clipped a strand of pearls around her neck and then donned the jacket and four-inch, open-toed, lavender-and-gray Christian Louboutin stilettos. Because, hey, an artistic girl’s just gotta wear something whimsical.

Although it was mid-October, the weather in Houston was still in the upper eighties and dastardly humid. But Tish knew La Maison Vert, the upscale French restaurant where she was meeting Addison James and her daughter, Felicity, kept their dining room chilled like fine champagne. Hence the long-sleeved tweed jacket. This job was very important. She couldn’t afford to shiver throughout the interview.

As she studied herself in the full-length mirror mounted on the inside door of her closet, Tish spied the price tag dangling from her sleeve. “Uh-oh, that won’t do.”

Since her divorce, she’d lived in a one-bedroom garage apartment behind a lavish manor house in the old-money section of River Oaks. The apartment had once served as maid quarters and its 1950s décor, with black-and-white tiled floors and foam green appliances, held a certain kind of retro charm. Not to mention that the six-hundred-dollar-a-month rent was a salve to her strained budget.

The elegant neighborhood was quiet. The only drawback to the apartment was that her bedroom had to double as her office. Consequently, everything was always in disarray. Cameras hung from hooks on the wall, a bank of editing monitors vied for space on the bedroom furniture, and papers and files were stacked on the floor.

A search for the scotch tape amid the disorganized, overflowing room finally turned up the dispenser, lurking beneath a tote bag on her computer desk, but not before she almost knocked the bookend off.

Her fingers traced over the weighted statuette of a little girl with a pail of water in her hand. The bookend had been carved from the burl of two banyan trees that had twined and grown together.

Her ex-husband, Shane, had bought the Jill half of the Jack and Jill bookends for her at a rummage sale while they were on their honeymoon. She’d fallen in love with the bookend the moment she’d seen it, although Shane had tried to discourage her from getting it because it was just one lone bookend. But she’d wanted it so much, he’d used Jill’s singleness as a bargaining chip to get the price down.

Seeing how happy the bookend made her, he’d promised he would search the Internet and haunt garage sales until he found the missing Jack and reunited him with his Jill.

An empty feeling settled in her stomach. That was another promise Shane hadn’t kept.

Tish shook her head, shook away Shane.

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