A Wedding One Christmas by Therese Beharrie

Author:Therese Beharrie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-27T19:18:05+00:00

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‘They want us to what?’

Ezra wasn’t surprised by Angie’s reaction. It pretty much reflected his own. Because when he heard that Jenny and Dave wanted them to join the Christmas parade again, he’d begun making up excuses as to why he wouldn’t be able to go.

‘It’s a family tradition!’ Becky said brightly, though her eyes flitted over Angie, and Ezra saw the concern there. Felt it himself. She looked...off. It didn’t help that she was clearly avoiding looking at him.

‘That a family wedding joins a Christmas parade?’

‘That the family attends the Christmas parade,’ Becky corrected him. ‘We go each year.’

‘But they’ve already finished with the floats,’ Angie said. ‘I’m assuming,’ she added hastily, when Charles and Becky both turned to look at her.

‘Well, yes, they probably have. But that’s not the only festivities. There are also contests. Of course, there’s also the ad-lib nativity play—’

‘Wait, what?’

He said it at the same time Angie looked at him with a delighted expression on her face.

‘It’s an ad-lib nativity play, Ezra,’ Angie repeated with faux patience. ‘Where the actors don’t prepare their lines before performing the play.’

‘Except they aren’t actors, dear,’ Becky interrupted. ‘They’re volunteers from the audience. Last year Jenny played Mary.’

Angie’s eyes widened, and the glee in her smile had him shaking his head. ‘Oh, no,’ he said. ‘No, no, no. You already got me to play Father Christmas today. There’s no way I’m adding any of the characters from the nativity play to my résumé.’

‘I have no idea what you’re talking about,’ Angie said innocently. ‘I am quite eager to attend the parade now though. Shall we?’

He narrowed his eyes at her, though his lips twitched and it took all of his self-control not to smile. ‘You first.’

‘We’ll go together,’ Charles interrupted. Ezra blinked. He’d forgotten about Charles and Becky for a second. Hell, he’d forgotten about the entire wedding and its guests. During that short moment, it had been only him and Angie.

Which was a massive problem.

He waited as the rest of their table followed the crowd to the door, wondering how they were all okay with delaying their main meals for the sake of the parade. He paused at the thought. Maybe the main meals would be served at the parade.

It was a risky move, but as he looked around the venue one last time, he realised risky must have been the theme of Jenny and Dave’s wedding. Perhaps not intentionally, he considering. But the tacky décor and feeding almost one hundred people at a parade—if his suspicions were correct—were definitely risky.

His suspicions were correct. But as he looked around at the field the parade had started at earlier, Jenny and Dave’s plan didn’t seem quite as risky. Tables were set out much like in the venue. Unlike there, they were decorated with white tablecloths and a single bowl of silver and white baubles surrounding a candle.

Food trucks enclosed the tables, making the area feel intimate, though a few metres beyond them stood a stage with people milling around it.

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