Wedded Bliss by Kathleen Y'Barbo

Author:Kathleen Y'Barbo
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Christian, Fiction
ISBN: 9781628360578
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Published: 2013-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Ten

“To my question?” Bliss sighed. “Oh no, Bobby, I didn’t mean to cause you to worry. Just ignore me. What do I know? I’ve never been married. I’m the last one you should—”

“Amy, darlin’, this is your pop.” His gaze met Bliss’s across the cab of the truck. “Yeah, I’m still pretty pumped about that contract, too. You’re definitely a chip off the old block. I can’t wait for you to tell Grandpa.”

Pause.

“No, of course I didn’t tell him. This is your deal. You get to tell him.”

Another pause.

“Yeah, he and Grandma should be back in another week, ten days at the most. You’ll be back well before then. Say, I want to talk to you about something else if you have just a minute.” Bobby’s brows shot up. “Oh, you don’t?”

He looked over at Bliss and shrugged. She offered a smile.

“I understand you’ve got dinner plans and all, but don’t you have just a second to talk about your. . . Well, that is, don’t you want to know how things are going here?”

Bliss watched the cars passing by, trying to tune out the conversation. Still, it was a bit difficult not to hear a conversation going on less than a foot away.

“Well, all right,” Bobby said. “Sure, I’ll take care of everything. You just enjoy Paris.”

“Everything all right?” Bliss asked when Bobby hung up.

He stared down at the cell phone, then set it back in the center console’s storage compartment. “You were right,” he said as he slowly turned toward Bliss.

“Right about what?”

“She’s not interested in the details of the wedding.” He shrugged. “ ‘I trust you, Daddy.’ That’s what she told me.”

“I see.”

“Yeah, I think I see, too.” He paused a second before shifting into reverse. “I’m just not sure what I’m going to do about this.”

Bliss cleared her throat. “I’m not keen on offering any more words of wisdom, but I will say that I think you need to keep doing what you’re doing. Keep planning this wedding until she comes back and takes over. When’s she coming back, anyway?”

“Another week,” he said.

“Same time Yvonne’s due back.” She smiled. “See, one more week of this, then you can turn it all over to them.”

“Nope.” He gunned the engine and shot into an empty spot on the heavily traveled road. “Yvonne’s not coming back.”

“Really?” She sat up a little straighter and tore her eyes from the road ahead. “Why not?”

“Her husband bought her a condo overlooking Diamond Head. She’s retiring.”

“Wow. Just like that?”

“Guess so.” He braked for a light, and she saw him heave a sigh.

“I know you were depending on her to come back. What will you do now?”

He glanced her way. “That’s the one good thing about this. Your mother’s agreed to hire on permanently.”

“She has?” Bliss considered this piece of news and tried to make sense of it. She’d predicted a few scenarios that might take place once Mama went to work at Tratelli Aviation, but any sort of permanent employment was not one of them.

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