The Barefoot Wedding by Bella Andre

Author:Bella Andre
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Oak Press, LLC
Published: 2018-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The next day, Amy couldn’t stop smiling while she and Travis worked together to hang her painting of Maya and Nolan. She’d been worried that things might be awkward in the aftermath of their unexpected kiss, but if anything, Travis seemed more at ease with her than before.

Almost as though their kiss had broken the ice that had built up between them over the past three years.

Not, of course, that either of them had actually talked about the kiss. Maybe, she thought with another smile, talking was overrated, and they should just stick to kissing for a while…

“Does that look right?” Travis lifted her painting into position as carefully as he would a Van Gogh or a Matisse.

“It looks perfect from where I’m standing,” Amy assured him, and she didn’t just mean the picture. But she didn’t want to say too much, too quickly. Not when what was growing between them again felt so fragile and precious—and she didn’t want to make the mistake of rushing things the way she had before.

Just as Liz had promised, the Married in Malibu workshop had been well equipped with everything they needed to frame her painting. She had chosen a relatively simple wooden frame design, then painted it to match the colors of the wedding backdrop.

“If you could hold it still for another couple of seconds,” he said, “I’ll get the last hangers in the wall.”

Though he was pounding the hammer just inches from her fingers, Amy felt perfectly safe. There was no one else she would have trusted as much with her hands, or the painting she had worked so hard on. Only Travis.

They had just finished hanging the painting and covering it with dark, velvet fabric Meg had embroidered around the edges for an elegant touch when Liz brought in a stack of beautifully wrapped wedding gifts.

“These have been collecting all week, and I was thinking the perfect spot for them is on the table beneath your painting, Amy.”

After Liz had artfully arranged the gifts, then headed back to her office, Amy turned to Travis. “I’m sure this wasn’t what she intended, but the setup makes it look like my gift is the most important one here.”

“That’s because it is,” he replied. “Your painting is going to wow everyone here, most especially the bride and groom. It’s absolutely breathtaking.”

In that moment, she could have sworn that the look he gave her said the painting wasn’t the only thing there he found breathtaking. And when Travis looked at her like that, it was hard not to think that maybe, just maybe, things might work out for them this time.

* * *

“Thanks for standing in for Maya and Nolan,” Nate said from his digital command center. Above Travis and Amy, the lighting rig flickered to life. “It’s so hard to get the spotlighting correct without an actual couple on the dance floor.”

Travis couldn’t help but be pleased when Amy had agreed to dance with him in the middle of the reception hall this afternoon.

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