The Weekday Brides 04 - Single by Saturday by Catherine Bybee

Author:Catherine Bybee
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781477849262
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2014-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Founder’s Day was serious freaking business in Hilton. Families staked their claim on Main Street a couple of hours before the parade with chairs that spilled out onto the road. Watching the town set up for a parade wasn’t so much the shock as the amount of people who started to pile in.

Karen leaned over to where Janice was setting up chairs in the space in front of the hardware store. “Where are they all coming from?”

Janice glanced up into the crowd. “Twenty miles in all directions. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone from Hilton staying home today, unless they’re sick.”

Karen felt more than one set of eyes on her. A common occurrence whenever Michael was around. Only here the kind people of Hilton tried to hide their curiosity.

Rena waved while pushing a stroller carrying Susie, while Joe had Eli on his shoulders to see above the crowd. “Hey, Mom.”

“Hey, honey.”

Rena and Joe both said hello to Karen as they tucked the stroller between the folding chairs. Rena and Joe both took turns offering hugs in greeting.

“Where’s Zach and Tracey?” Janice asked her daughter.

Karen glanced down the street, trying not to pay too close attention to the mention of Zach.

“Not sure where Zach is, but don’t expect Tracey.”

“Oh? Why not?”

“You didn’t hear?” Rena asked in a way that attracted Karen’s attention.

“Hear what?”

“They broke up.”

Janice’s shoulders slumped with the news and Karen felt three shades of awful for feeling a lift in her chest. Not that she had any reason to be happy for Zach’s breakup…

Oh, who was she kidding?

Tracey wasn’t right for him.

Like I know the woman enough to make that judgment.

You’re awful, Karen. Awful!

She knew, on some level, that she was part of the reason for the split. Zach didn’t seem like the kind of guy to lead one woman on while being attracted to another.

What must he think of her? The fact that she could even be drawn into someone else’s orbit while being married must make her look horrific.

“Karen? Karen?”

She shook the fog and questions from her head and realized Rena was talking to her.

“Yeah?”

“I asked why you’re not on the float with Mike?”

She lifted both hands in acute denial. “Not my gig. Hannah and Judy were more than happy to jump on board.”

“It’s better down here anyway. I think I’ve marched in this thing at least a half a dozen times,” Rena said.

Janice sat in the chair closest to her granddaughter and corrected Rena. “You marched for six years in a row with the Girl Scouts, then again with the high school marching band, and at least two more times with either Zach or Mike.”

“Is there anyone in this town who hasn’t marched or rode?”

“Nope. Even Sawyer has driven the route a time or two, and I was the den mom for Rena’s troop for a couple of years and had to ride with them.”

Who knew participating in a parade would be a family affair?

“There you are.” Joe’s voice had Karen swinging around to see who he greeted.

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