Stop That Wedding by Melissa Klein

Stop That Wedding by Melissa Klein

Author:Melissa Klein [Klein, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: By: Melissa Klein
Publisher: Rusty Wheels Media, LLC.
Published: 2018-08-24T16:00:00+00:00


What can I expect when I get back to Greenbrier?

Andrew’s double entendre query still burned in Diana’s ears hours after ferrying the group back to civilization. So far there’d been a scene where Mama threw her engagement ring at Neville, a fuming and humiliated duke being dragged off by his nephew, and a minor crisis over an upcoming baby shower to be held in the gardens. But nothing in the way of making good on their plans for another sleepover.

Long after nightfall, Diana was still trying to get Jackie down for the night. She feigned a yawn hoping it might work where the warm milk and hot bath hadn’t. “I think I hear my bed calling my name.”

Jackie stared at the TV where her favorite show, Designing Women, had played continually for the past several hours.

“Aren’t you tired? It’s been a long day.” Diana tapped into her mother’s sense of martyrdom. “And you’ve endured a lot today. A good night’s sleep is exactly what you deserve.”

“Bed. Coffin.” Jackie sniffled. “What difference does it make? That man has slain me with his ingratitude. I don’t know how I’ll face him in the morning. My heart is broken. It didn’t hurt this much when your daddy ran off.”

Diana barely managed to stop the eye roll as she stepped to the bathroom to retrieve her mother’s nightly medication. Most of what Jackie took was vitamins and herbal supplements, the exception being a prescription sleep aid. Diana added a couple aspirin for the muscle aches her mother was complaining about. If luck was on her side in any kind of way, her mama would sleep until noon tomorrow. “Here are your pills. You get some sleep and don’t worry about a thing. I’ll take care of our guests.”

After Jackie closed her bedroom door, it seemed to take forever for the light to disappear from beneath it. “Finally.” Now she knew how a new mom felt. Diana typed out a text to Andrew. Then deleted it. If she had any sense, she’d go to bed. Alone. Instead, she ran a comb through her hair, dabbed on lipstick, and went in search of her viscount.

Up in the original part of the mansion, she knocked on the door of the Azalea Suite. No answer. “God, you’re telling me something, aren’t you?” The words of her Sunday School teacher, Mrs. Whitener, came to mind. “Only a fool chases after trouble.”

Diana rapped at the door again. To be sure. Andrew wasn’t trouble. Not in the way Travis was. Andrew had many fine qualities her ex would never possess even if he lived to be a hundred. There simply wasn’t a future with Andrew. “But what if I don’t want forever? There’s no harm in two people…” She couldn’t say it out loud, so she shouldn’t be doing it. “I’m a modern woman, and there’s no harm in Andrew and me enjoying each other’s company for the evening.” When Andrew didn’t answer, she looked for him in the lounge and by the pool.



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