The Wedding Dress by Rachel Hauck

Author:Rachel Hauck
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, ebook, Christian, book, Fiction
ISBN: 1595549633
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2012-04-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Daniel

It was late. Friday night. After a long, hard week at school, Daniel arrived at the Italian Garden, comforted to find his friends gathered at a table in the corner. With a nod at the maître d’, he started toward them.

“Daniel.” Ross shook his friend’s hand. “We thought you forgot us, chum.”

“Midnight, Ross? Can’t you find a more decent hour to socialize?” Daniel took his seat, then greeted the man on his right. “Alex, can’t you talk sense into him?”

“No, and seeing as you’ve been his friend longer, you should know better.” Alex smiled, clapping Daniel on the back. “Besides, the theater has just let out as well as the symphony.” He nodded toward the front of the restaurant. “All the pretty ladies should be coming through that door any moment.”

“With their escorts, I imagine.” Daniel barely glanced at the couple entering the restaurant and instead, reached for the menu. “I’m famished.” After the school week, he’d spent his Friday evening not in the company of a soft, lovely dame but attempting to launder his own clothes. He was exhausted. But his compassion for the “weaker” sex, who tended such arduous chores, rose ten notches.

Ross zipped the menu from Daniel’s fingers. “Escorts can be fathers, brothers, uncles. Don’t keep your mind so closed, Ludlow.”

“I’ll keep that in mind if a girl enters who’s so gorgeous she makes my heart forget my stomach.” He snatched back his menu, flopped it open, and started to read. If Emily Canton walked in . . . “I warn you, my stomach is very important to me.”

“How’s life at the Ridley, chum?” Alex said.

“Decent. There’s a grandmotherly lady who likes to bake me cookies. Leaves them at my door for when I come home from the institute.”

“There you go. You don’t need a wife now.” Alex motioned for the waiter. “A round of waters and some bread to start with—give us a minute to figure out the rest.”

“Starving, Al?” Ross put away his menu.

“You made Danny and me wait until almost midnight to eat, Ross. What do you figure? I could eat a horse.”

Ross smacked his palms together. “I’m going to polish off a large plate of spaghetti and meatballs, then I’m going to dance the Navajo Rag with the cutest girls in the joint until the sunlight glints off the top of Red Mountain.”

“I’m not dancing with no glue shoe.” Alex sat back, took his pipe from his jacket pocket, and propped it between his lips without lighting it. “I don’t care how pretty she is. She’s got to know how to dance.”

Daniel grinned. “That pipe makes you look like your father, Alex.”

“Good, I hate being twenty-three. You should hear the way the senior bank managers talk to me. Like I was a snot-nosed child. The other day one of them patted me on the head.”

Ross tipped back his chair as he laughed. “Bide your time. In a few years you’ll be patting the new tellers on the head.”

“I pray not.” Alex slipped his pipe back into his pocket.

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