White Knight by Cd Reiss

Author:Cd Reiss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Women
ISBN: 9781942833482
Publisher: Flip City Media Inc.
Published: 2018-03-02T08:00:00+00:00

Epilogue

CATHERINE

He’d planned his proposal with the care and patience of a lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court. He’d had the ring, the place, and the time.

Unfortunately, my flight out of Sri Lanka had been delayed. He’d spent the first week with me, then gone back to New York. I was supposed to follow, and he was supposed to propose at the top of Freedom Tower. Instead, he’d met me at the airport, carried me upstairs half asleep, and put the ring on my finger while I was dreaming.

Of course I’d said yes. I may have been crazy busy, but I wasn’t crazy.

And now, here I was under a tin ceiling painted with roses in a designer wedding gown my fiancé’s ex-wife had commissioned. It was gorgeous. The veil was set in my hair with roses. My nails were done, and my lipstick softened my face.

Lucia was behind me in a pink business suit, hooking the back of the dress closed. Marsha was pinning and repinning my hair.

“I love it,” I said.

“Of course you do,” Lucia replied.

“Chris is going to fall in love all over again,” Marsha said. “He hasn’t seen you yet, has he?”

“Not for a week.”

We’d been separated for that long before. We had been apart for three weeks when I was setting up a school for girls in Morocco, but this week had been the hardest. He had stayed with Johnny while I stayed at the house, planning everything with Lucia and Harper. And Taylor, of course, who’d found his way back to Harper. But that was another story entirely.

Outside, I heard kids playing and guests laughing. Everyone was coming. The entire town, the board of Montano, our friends from New York. Everyone.

There was a commotion downstairs, in the living room. Someone was calling for Father Grady. I wasn’t supposed to go down. Chris had promised a surprise.

Harper banged up the stairs and threw herself into the room. Her sentence was one long word. “Cassie-the-pregnant-FBI-agent-her-water-broke-so-they-need-to-get-married.”

Cassie the Pregnant FBI agent was with Keaton the Handsome Brit in the Dark Shirt from my birthday party.

“Okay?”

“She’s trying to leave. She doesn’t want to take the wind out of your sails.”

“Nonsense.” I gathered up my skirt.

“Can’t they have the baby first?” Lucia objected.

“I don’t know!” Harper said. “It’s a thing!”

“Americans are such prudes.”

Whatever the reason, it wasn’t for me to judge why they felt as though they had to get married first. I flew down the stairs as a voice with an English accent floated over the confusion.

“We need rings!”

“Use ours!” I called as I was halfway down. Father Grady was putting on his stole and flipping through his book of sacraments. “Chris! Give them the rings!”

Chris spun around and put his hand over his eyes. “I’m not looking at you!”

“Who has them?” I shouted, then froze. The mantel, the wall, the entire side of the room where we were to be married was crammed with roses.

“The best man,” Chris said from behind his hand. “Back upstairs, woman!”

I couldn’t back away. Couldn’t turn from the roses.

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