Murder, Money, and Moving On by Stacey Alabaster

Author:Stacey Alabaster [Alabaster, Stacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2018-03-10T06:00:00+00:00

“You don’t think this is a little strange?” Ryan asked. He was pulling at the corner of his dress shirt. His rented suit was a teeny bit tight, but he still looked good in it. Older, too. Before we’d left the house, I had joked that we only looked five years apart in age instead of twelve.

“What is strange about it?” I murmured as I watched Fiona’s bridesmaids stick a bouquet of flowers into her dog Felicity’s mouth. Felicity, it seemed, was a part of the bridal party. I gulped a little, thinking about how Adam had always intended for Jasper to be a part of the ceremony as well. In the end, neither of us had even asked Alice about it. I thought we agreed—it would just be too painful.

“Me being here at your ex-husband’s wedding.”

“I suppose it’s weird that I’m here then, if you put it like that,” I said, watching Felicity wait patiently for her owner to appear. It was only a few months earlier that we had been standing in this very same spot in the park, watching Felicity herself get married. Yes, really. Well, kind of really. In the end, her wedding had never gone ahead. She’d been supposed to marry Jasper. Only things had gone rather not-to-plan when someone had ended up dead in the woods.

I shook my head and reached out to straighten Ryan’s tie. “It’s not awkward. Well, maybe it is a little. But it’s not like you’ll have to talk to Adam much. He’ll be rather distracted with getting married.”

Truth be told, though, I wouldn’t have wanted to even attend the event without Ryan by my side. The invitation that Adam had sent me had just said “George Plus One.” He hadn’t told me who I could and couldn’t invite. Adam and Ryan were friendly. I just wondered if after everything that had happened between Adam and I, all the water under the bridge, whether he would want to see me bringing a date to his wedding.

We took a seat in the back where we wouldn’t be in the direct line of sight for Fiona and Adam when they said their vows.

Adam was standing at the end of the aisle looking nervous, next to Fiona’s bridal party, including a confused-looking Felicity, who dropped her flowers and started to run off until the maid of honor grabbed her. Fiona had yet to turn up.

“I just don’t know why Brenda was in such a hurry to leave town,” I murmured, half to myself. I still couldn’t get over her sudden departure. It was so unlike her. I turned and looked at Ryan. “You know she hasn’t even waited for her husband to move. He still wants to give his two weeks’ notice at his job and do the right thing. Tom tells me he’ll just catch up and meet her later.”

Ryan shrugged and crossed his arms while we waited for the ceremony to finally begin. “Maybe she thinks time is running out for her,” he suggested.

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