My Wicked Billionaire by Serenity Woods

Author:Serenity Woods [Woods, Serenity]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Clio

“This place is amazing.” I’m sitting in Nix’s dressing room, having my hair done while I look out across the Alice Garden where she’ll be saying her vows in an hour’s time. It’s a beautiful day, and the sun is bouncing off the roofs of the Lodge and the Stables, turning the garden to a riot of color.

“I’m so glad we decided to get married here,” Nix says. “When I first suggested it, Leon thought it would be too much like hard work to get everything organized, but actually it’s been really easy.”

In the mirror, I watch Rona, the organizer in charge of dressing the bride and bridesmaids, fiddle with Nix’s dress. The gown is so beautiful it makes me want to cry. Nix bought it from the Bay of Islands Brides shop and had it transported down here. It’s handmade, and the satin dress has a sweetheart neckline and a low back, but is covered in lace so she has lace sleeves and a lace-covered back, as well as a long train. The lace is embroidered with thousands of tiny pearls. It’s just gorgeous.

“Don’t cry,” Nix says, meeting my eyes in the mirror, “or I’ll start, and I’ve just done my mascara.”

“And if you start crying, we’ll all be at it,” Summer points out, and we all laugh.

Everyone’s here—Izzy, Remy, Summer, Jules, Poppy, and Abby with baby Ethan, who’s dressed in an adorable tiny suit. Nix’s sister, Louise, and their mom are also here. I know Nix’s dad refused to come. How awful is that? He and his daughters had some kind of argument a few years back, and they’ve not been home since then. I can’t imagine Nix doing anything so bad that it would force her father to disown her. But at least her mother came.

All the girls are bridesmaids, and we’re all going to be wearing the same style of dress—a mulberry-colored A-line tulle gown with a sweetheart neckline to echo Nix’s dress, sleeveless, with cap straps. It’s really flattering considering we’re all shapes and sizes. The others are all ready, but as I was late, I’m just having the finishing touches put to my hair before I slip into the dress.

I study my reflection, watching the hairdresser curling the strands she’s left to frame my face. She’s rolled the rest into a neat chignon and slipped a few fresh flowers into the side. As she finishes and gives a final spritz of hairspray, the lady who’s doing our makeup takes her place to finish making me up.

Nix blows out a long breath. “What’s the time?”

“A quarter past one,” Izzy says.

“How’s it all going out there?” Jules asks, gesturing at the window from her seat in front of the mirror, where the hairdresser is now spraying her hair.

Izzy, who’s sitting on a seat by the window, looks down. “A few people have turned up. Hal’s there, talking to the celebrant. Wow, he looks so good in that suit.”

We all chuckle. “Those morning coats were a super idea,” Remy tells Nix.

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