Wedding At the Riverview Inn by Molly O'Keefe

Author:Molly O'Keefe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Molly Fader

Gabe was rarely caught speechless. Almost never since the divorce. But looking at Daphne and Helen in that doorway, while his body still screamed for Alice, literally struck him dumb.

“Hi,” Daphne said, her wide eyes taking it all in.

“Hello, ladies,” he finally said, forcing a smile.

“You told us to come watch the sunset here,” Helen reminded him, unaware of the treacherous adult undercurrents swirling around the kitchen. “You said this was the best place in the world for that. So we’re here.” She hopped forward in her bright pink galoshes and Gabe’s heart staggered and paused.

Right. Date two with Daphne. A sunset hike to the Hudson. Yesterday that had seemed like a good idea, but watching Alice from the corner of his eye blanche and brace herself momentarily against the fridge, he cursed himself.

“Is this a bad time?” Daphne asked, her face bland but her eyes piercing. She was no fool and wasn’t about to be played like one.

He did not know what to do. How to make this right. He glanced at Alice, searching for some clue, some hint of how to not hurt her.

Hurt her? he suddenly thought. She’s my ex-wife and we made a mistake. There’s no hurt here. There’s just a mistake.

That justification seemed right. How could they be hurt if days ago they were screaming at each other? They’d gotten caught up in working together. That’s all. Talking about Zinnia and the divorce in a darkened warm kitchen had allowed them to forget for one brief moment that the past was best left in the past. That’s all.

“No,” he finally said, pushing Alice and the disaster of that kiss away. “This is a perfect time.” He took a deep breath, willing Alice to understand what he so clearly knew to be the truth. The kiss was a onetime mistake. “You good?” he asked Alice. “I mean for the budgets?”

“No problem,” she said, her head buried in the fridge. “Have a good time.”

He smiled at Daphne, held out his hands and ushered them back out the door. “Let’s go for a walk,” he said, hoping he’d done the right thing but feeling Alice at his back like a burning fire.

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