When An Amish Heart Breaks by Marisa Meyer

Author:Marisa Meyer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: amish romance, clean romance, wholesome romance, sweet romance
Publisher: Trellis Publishing
Published: 2021-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

AMBER & ABEL

MONICA MARKS

Amber and Abel

Milan, Italy

“No! No! No!” Amber cried, throwing her hands up in dismay. “How did this happen? How could this happen?”

The others in the hung their heads in unison, no one willing to accept the blame for the most recent catastrophe.

“Giuliana is to wear the taffeta number, Gia the silk and Corina the leather and lace. Who screwed this up? Come on, speak up. Time is money, people!”

Again, only mollified silence met the designer’s question.

Amber stifled a groan, knowing that she would not get an admission from the group.

“Never mind now,” she sighed. “Twenty minutes to curtain. Get the models re-dressed at once. Keep an eye on the rotation! It’s simple reading! It’s not that complicated!”

A chorus of “yes ma’am” filled her ears and she spun to deal with the next mishap as someone shoved a clipboard in her face.

It doesn’t matter how many years I’ve been doing this, I have yet to see a fashion show go as planned.

It was not for lack of excruciating planning of course. Every detail had been mapped to the last second months in advance and yet inevitably, someone impetrative would call in sick or a top investor would want to bring his six grandchildren backstage. Invariably, a model vomited on the runway or a make-up artist and hair stylist got into a fist fight.

It was what kept Amber’s blood pressure skyrocketing and her heart rushing in her ears.

“Amber! Amber, you have an urgent phone call!”

Her assistant, Dana appeared, holding out one of the three cell phones she carried but Amber waved her away.

Every phone call was an urgent phone call. It was an occupational hazard.

“Not now, Dana. Can’t you see we’re T minus nineteen minutes?”

“Amber, you need to take – “

“Dana! I am up to my ears in disasters right now. Can you please deal with whatever it is? Is that not what I pay you the big bucks for?”

For a timeless second, a hush seemed to fall over the bustling backstage and inexplicably, Amber felt the hairs on her arms raise as she lifted her head.

She looked at Dana who shook her head quietly.

“What is it?” Amber breathed. “What happened?”

Dana visibly swallowed, lowering her kind, brown eyes through the lenses of her glasses.

She extended the phone further.

“It’s your mother.”

And Amber’s world stopped.

Brooklyn, New York

“I’m looking for Leah Colville,” Amber told the nurse. She drummed her fingers anxiously on the counter as the woman punched in the information and nodded.

“Room 717,” she announced. “Just follow that hallway to the end.”

Amber barely heard the last words as she flew down toward her mother’s room.

It was slightly ajar and she pushed it open, her stomach flipping nervously.

“Mama?” she called softly. “Mama, are you awake?”

“Amber?”

She hurried inside the semi-private room, sliding the separating curtain aside.

Leah was the only one in the room but Amber knew that could change at the drop of a hat.

Oh mama, why didn’t you say anything?

Her breath caught in her throat as she stared at her one virile mother, sunken in the bed, her face as white as the sterile sheets in which she lay.

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