Wedding Season by Michelle Major

Author:Michelle Major
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2022-01-27T18:39:52+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

ALEX WAS SHOCKED when he arrived at work on Tuesday morning to find Heather already seated at her desk.

“I thought you were taking a few days with your family?”

“I got back last night. There’s a lunch meeting today at the town hall about the Magnolia Blossom Festival. I didn’t want to miss it.”

“I could have handled that,” he told her. “Heather, you don’t have to—”

“It’s okay.” She glanced up at him, giving a little wave with a casted arm. The scrape on her forehead no longer required a bandage and had turned into a pale bruise.

Even with the tension he could read around the corners of her eyes, she had more color in her cheeks than she’d had the night of the accident. “Is everything okay with your family?”

“I think so. I should have told them before coming down here. My mom is still freaked out about the whole thing, but she’s trying to understand. Heck, I’m still trying to understand why it’s important to me that I know the person who didn’t want me when I was a baby.”

Alex shouldn’t feel any need to defend Mariella at this point. Based on how they’d left things Saturday, he wasn’t sure she’d ever speak to him again. “I don’t think it was a matter of not wanting you,” he told the girl.

“That’s how it felt,” Heather said, “when I was growing up. Like I’d been disposable to her.”

Alex wasn’t going to pretend he understood the emotional turmoil of someone who’d been adopted, but he could relate when his mother had been happier with her second husband and second baby. Alex sometimes felt like her life would have been easier if he hadn’t been born.

He reminded himself that he was there to support Heather not to wallow in his own past. “What about now that you know Mariella?”

Heather ran a hand over the purple cast that covered her left arm up to her bicep. “I guess it’s more complicated now that she’s involved.”

Alex smiled. “I’m not sure anything with Mariella is simple.”

Heather snorted her agreement and gave him a curious glance. Before she could raise the question about the nature of his relationship with Mariella, Alex turned the conversation back to business. “Can you get me projected sales numbers for the fall season? And when you see Luann, tell her she needs to finalize which pieces she wants to focus on when we see the New York buyers.”

“New York? I thought you were doing the launch at the Magnolia Blossom Festival.”

Alex nodded. “Yes, but we still need to go with some of the big retailers. I’ve set up the business model so that we’ll rely mostly on sales from the website and our social media links. We’re also going to do some work with major retail outlets.”

He studied her as she fidgeted. “You don’t think it’s a good idea?”

“It’s not really my business. I’m just an administrative assistant.”

“You aren’t going to play the not-involved card now. You pretty much run my life at this point.

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