One Moonlit Night by Foley Gaelen

Author:Foley, Gaelen [Foley, Gaelen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Gaelen Foley
Published: 2015-09-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Wedding Madness

The great day had arrived—and had nearly passed, by this hour—but Trinny still couldn’t believe it. Her little sister had become a married woman.

Before her.

The reality of her decision not to marry, ever, was beginning to sink in after the beautiful ceremony at St. Andrew’s on one end of Moonlight Square, and the packed reception at the Grand Albion on the other.

The Assembly Rooms were hot and the wine flowed freely, and everyone was there.

Abigail and Freddie were glowing, mingling among their countless guests. Mama was misty-eyed and slightly tipsy, hanging on to their precious bride and telling embarrassing childhood stories about her to anyone who’d listen.

As for Trinny, with her duties as maid of honor all but completed, she felt liberated after weeks of nonstop scrambling about on wedding business. Weeks of being at her mother’s and sister’s beck and call, ever since she had declared her spinsterhood and freed the happy couple to set the date.

It had been draining, exhausting. It had also been a gigantic distraction from her own life. Now that the orchestra was playing and the whole ordeal was close to being over, she was beginning to experience the first uneasy glimmerings of what existence would be like for her beyond this night. The long, lonely years ahead…

Another glass of wine helped her ignore the thought. Alas, it also made her slightly cheeky.

She was standing around chatting with a group of people, two of whom included Lord Sefton and his tall, handsome heir.

Gable was looking even more gorgeous than usual in his smart black-and-white evening attire, his ebony hair slicked back, not a one out of place. His nearness made her happy, though she hadn’t had much chance to talk to him yet.

He had smiled at her in the church when she had walked down the aisle—alone—ahead of her sister and taken up her position off to the side, opposite Freddie’s younger brother, the groomsman.

He seemed to like the way she looked in the pale pink dress her sister had chosen for her so that she’d match the blush-colored roses. It was very low-cut, but Abigail had always had a more daring sense of fashion than she did. Perhaps that helped explain why she hadn’t had any trouble getting a man to fall in love with her…

Trinny suppressed a sigh, gulped a mouthful of wine, and met Gable’s gaze as he stood on the other side of the group of people there chatting. He raised an eyebrow at her, swigging wine like a sailor, but suddenly, his father’s polite monotone drew her attention.

“Congratulations, Lady Beresford,” Lord Sefton said to Mama. “Your daughter and new son-in-law look very happy together.”

“That’s because they’re very much in love,” Trinny piped up, slurring slightly, with an edge of reproach in her tone for the old bully. “People should marry for love, not money, don’t you think, m’lord?”

Gable choked on his wine.

His father frowned at her, taken aback by her impertinence.

She waited expectantly for the mighty earl’s answer,

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