Back to the Lake Breeze Hotel by Amie Denman

Author:Amie Denman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-12-11T19:12:30+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

REHEARSAL DINNERS ARE not my favorite, Alice thought. She loved weddings. Planning the music, flowers, vows, colors and food were the fun parts of beginning a life together. Nothing made her happier than going to the florist’s shop with a bride to decide on daisies or roses. Even though she’d imagined herself planning other special events, her time at Starlight Point had made her love the moment when the bride walked down the aisle to join the waiting groom. Her heart lifted with each step the bride and her party took, and she adored seeing the groom’s expression of wonder.

She had never given Nate an opportunity to have that look. Knowing how carefully he reserved his feelings, would he have given his heart away with his expression?

The night before the wedding when the party gathered to begin the official transformation of bride and groom to husband and wife should be a happy time of waiting, like Christmas Eve. But to Alice, it brought back the night before her own wedding when she had finally gathered the courage to say no.

“You can’t believe how surprised I am to be here,” Henry said, leaning close to Alice as she watched the guests arriving and finding their seats.

She turned and found Henry wearing a dark suit with a burgundy tie. “You look dangerously handsome.”

Henry pulled at his tie. “I swore I’d never wear a tie again after I retired from the airline.”

“Virginia must have been very convincing when she asked you to dress up and be her date.”

“Yes, but she asked me at the last minute, which isn’t too flattering. Maybe everyone else turned her down.”

Alice smiled. “You know that’s not true. Tonight is also the early Thanksgiving feast for employees in the ballroom, so she was probably thinking of going to that instead. That’s where the rest of her family is. She wasn’t committed to attending this wedding until recently, and she was probably being courteous to you by not dragging you into her indecision.”

“I wouldn’t have minded. What I’d like to know is how you convinced her to come to this wedding.”

Alice shrugged. “It wasn’t the hardest thing I’ve done all summer. She needed an impartial person to talk to. Her own children are too close to the situation.”

“She could have talked to me.”

“You,” Alice said, shaking her head and pointing playfully at Henry, “are definitely too close to the situation.”

“How’s that?”

Alice had said too much. She wanted to be truthful and tell Henry that his company was the reason Virginia was so conflicted about her friend getting married. He had to see it for himself already. If other widows in Virginia’s circle of friends could find love a second time around, it made it even more plausible and frightening for Virginia.

“You should take your seat at the head table.” Alice pointed toward the long table where the bride, groom and bridal party were seated.

“I don’t really belong there since I just met the bride today.”

“You’re there for Virginia, just keep that in mind.

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