Sweet Wedding by Eliza Ester

Author:Eliza Ester [Ester, Eliza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Majestic Owl Publishing LLC

Six

Bethany

“Oh, Annabelle. If I only knew how to explain what was happening,” Bethany said, her head in her hands after supper. The ranch hands had already left. Clay hadn’t joined them tonight, and Bethany didn’t blame him. After he’d stormed off, she had waited for him. She’d hoped he would come back, if only so that she could apologize for her shortcomings; for her cowardliness in not telling him the truth before.

Tonight, she’d learned from Ace that the coach would leave next week and everything had become so clear—the fantasy she was living had come to an end.

“Why don’t you just start from the beginning?” Annabelle asked when Bethany’s answer was so cryptic. She’d asked what was wrong and Bethany just couldn’t stomach being a disappointment for a second time that night.

She took a deep breath and shook her head.

Annabelle sat next to her and took her hand.

“I’ll tell you something,” she said. “When Ace and I met it seemed there was no way we could be together. I came here for another man that didn’t work out and Ace had no money to support me. It looked like I had to go back home, but then a miracle happened and we are together now.”

“You’re really lucky,” Bethany said.

Annabelle nodded. “Lucky, yes, in many ways. But if everything happened the way it did and Ace and I hadn’t told each other how we felt, we might never have gotten around to being together after all.”

Bethany frowned. “I don’t understand,” she said.

Annabelle patted her hand. “Communication is the most important thing. No matter what, talk to each other. You were open for the first time. That means something.”

Bethany nodded. It meant something, sure. It meant that she’d lost the man she was starting to fall for even before she had him. Her heart was heavy. Her eyes stung with fresh tears and no matter how hard she tried to bite them back, they spilled over her cheeks anyway.

Annabelle dipped her head so she could look Bethany in the eye even though Bethany was looking at her hands in her lap.

“You really care for him, don’t you?” Annabelle asked.

Bethany nodded. She cared for him a lot more than she had admitted even to herself. But now that he was so angry with her, now that he would probably never talk to her again, she realized how much it hurt to lose him.

“I don’t know what to do,” Bethany said. Her voice was thin. She hated being this vulnerable, this weak.

“What do you mean?” Annabelle asked.

Bethany swallowed, trying to get her tears to go away. She’d cried so much this evening she was starting to feel ridiculous. She was also exhausted.

“My parents raised me to be honest. I already haven’t done that until now. I’ve also been taught to honor my commitments. And I’m committed to a man that I don’t know in a town I’ve never been to. To be married.”

“Oh. I understand.” Annabelle nodded. “I know it’s hard. But Beth, don’t you see? It’s obvious your stop here because of the accident has changed things.

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