Once and Forever by Mary Blayney Elaine Fox Emelle Gamble Lavinia Kent Evie Owens

Author:Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Emelle Gamble, Lavinia Kent, Evie Owens
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2013-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Cabo San Lucas, Baja California

August 13, 2010 4 p.m.

Okay, Artie. I hear you. I’ll be in touch in a couple of days. We’re staying here in Mexico until the 15th, and then we’re going on to Rome. I’ve agreed with Ben to do a press event there before the festival. But just one. One sit–down with the newlyweds should satisfy them.”

Molly said her goodbyes and put down the phone carefully. Her fingernails were dry and her toes, just burnished by the hotel’s best manicurist with a sparkly purple called ‘Jamaican Me Crazy’ were drying. Her blonde hair was wrapped in a towel, awaiting the arrival of Juju St. Claire. She was the best combo hair and makeup artist in the business, and Molly had become personal friends with her on her last movie.

Molly had coaxed her into coming down for the weekend with a promise of a short schedule and time to play. She’d said it was for a magazine interview and shoot, and didn’t mind the lie as Juju would be thrilled at being one of the wedding guests.

She took a sip from her champagne. Her two best girls, loyal friends since high school, Honey Adams and Lisa March, were expected at the hotel in the next hour. She was sure Juju would happily do their hair and makeup tomorrow, too, and they were all booked with the hotel masseuse. It was going to be a regular girl party before the big do.

A bride. I’m going to be the bride.

Butterflies fluttered in her stomach. She was an actress, but she had always been uneasy being the center of attention. She could never do theatre for that reason. She could block a film crew from her mind, but paying customers, strangers, sitting and staring, made her want to flee.

But this is different. We’ll just be in front of people who love me and Ben.

Molly eyed her dress hanging across the room. White watered silk, the sleeveless bodice overlaid with a lace of palest moss green, the dress was fitted and romantic and would show off every good thing about her figure. Next to it hung her mother’s veil, updated with the same lace as her dress and sparkly with the original rhinestones.

She would wear Norma’s mother’s Art Deco emerald earrings and new La Perla lingerie. There were roses and music and small silver vases engraved with the day. The wedding details all perfect to the naked eye, amazingly pulled together in less than two weeks. Their guests would surely enjoy it all.

Molly’s eyes filled with tears. Everything might be perfect on the outside, but inside her emotions were raw and scabbed over, just like her knees.

She hadn’t heard a word from Cruz, hadn’t spoken to him, or seen him, since that terrible night ten days ago when her engagement party turned into a fiasco, and she’d made a fool of herself to the man who had taught her what love was.

How could I have said those things to him? Molly pressed her fingers over her eyelids to squash the tears.

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