Pamela Morsi by Here Comes the Bride

Author:Here Comes the Bride [Bride, Here Comes the]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-10-20T22:45:24+00:00

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SUNDAY DAWNED BRIGHT AND EXPECTANT. IT WAS barely three weeks until the Fourth of July, three weeks until Gussie Mudd planned to be a married woman. But her focus as she sat in church listening intently to Reverend Holiday was on the city park and the kissing booth.

Every time her thoughts drifted to the day before and Rome’s lips on her own, little thrilling shivers traveled up and down her spine. Deliberately she tried not to think about it while seated in church, but the more diligently she tried to avoid the memory, the more often her ruminations went off in that direction.

She had been meeting Rome Akers almost daily since her father’s death. But she was meeting him this afternoon and somehow everything about it had changed. Gussie found herself looking forward to his arrival. Their scheming had brought them closer together. They had become more friends than employee and employer. Gussie had always admired Rome’s hard work and his honesty and thoroughness. Now she discovered that she enjoyed Rome’s company. She liked the sound of his laugh, the twinkle that sparkled in those clear blue eyes and the way he said Miss Gussie as if it were just one long word.

She had chosen to wear the dress Miss Ima made for her. She’d been up half the night, with a good deal less skill than that of the seamstress, loosening the waist so she could wear it without such drastic lacing. It fit her now, and though certainly not as stunning as it had been, it did look very nice on her.

She hoped that Rome agreed. If Rome thought she looked nice, then, of course, Amos would think the same. She’d worn the dress for Amos. Because she knew Rome liked it.

The whole town seemed to be buzzing with excitement and anticipation. All the women seemed to be in on the wonderful joke. Though not a word was spoken carelessly. With children all around, it was understood by mothers that a secret kept was one never mentioned. The husbands remained blissfully in the dark about the vaguely mentioned surprises in store.

She had hoped that Rome would have come to escort her to church this morning, but he had not mentioned it and she had not asked him. He had seemed strangely thoughtful and subdued yesterday after their visit to the kissing booth.

He’d said that he had “lost control.” Gussie was not entirely sure what he meant by that. He had certainly seemed very much in control to her. He had been demonstrative and masterful, as if in complete command of his faculties, as well as of her own.

With her thoughts heading in that direction once more, Gussie resolutely forced them on to a more Sunday-morning plane.

The pastor’s message was an important one on the duties of marriage. She admonished herself to pay close attention. It was still her plan to shortly join the ranks of wedded wives. She should be very interested in what that job entailed. But it was not the duties of marriage that occupied her mind, it was the potential delights of it.

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