Call it Fate by Marlie May

Author:Marlie May
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Marlie May

16

CARA

I was a complete wreck.

Because it was Saturday morning. The day I would marry the man I’d cared for in one way or another for most of my life.

I’d have to do whatever I could to avoid loving him now. Sure, I was attracted to him. Okay, a hell of a lot more than attracted to him. But I could deal with that because it was physical. My body’s response would not shred my emotions.

I sat in a chair in the small room off the church’s vestibule, where Sam and Barbie, my maids of honor, had helped me dress.

I’d helped Arie get ready earlier. Dad’s only task was to keep her from getting dirty until the service began.

Barbie stood behind me, clicking her tongue while doing last-minute touch-ups to my hair, which she and Sam had styled in a high, twisted arrangement and decorated with flowers that matched my bouquet.

Pulling my fingernail away from my mouth, a habit I needed to break, I frowned at Sam. “We should’ve had a rehearsal last night.” Everyone had rehearsals, didn’t they?

“You didn’t need a rehearsal,” Sam said. Normally dressed in scuffed denim, tees, and boots, Sam in formal attire outdid any bridal fashion model. When Camila and her partner, Janine, had stopped in for a few moments, however, it had been hard to tell who looked better, Mom or daughter. The Jensen family cleaned up well. Sam and Barbie wore matching, tea-length dresses in robin’s egg blue. The blue looked gorgeous against Barbie’s dark skin. “Since you’re marrying my brother, and you’ve known him forever,” Sam said. “You can wing it.”

“It’s a wedding. You don’t wing a wedding.” Even to Roan. No, especially to Roan.

“If it was my wedding, I would.”

I didn’t miss the forlorn tone in her words. After her loss, it would take a special person to talk Sam into the idea of getting married.

“Now, now, Samantha.” Barbie smoothed a seam on my shoulder. “Stop teasing Cara. Can’t you see you’re stressing her?”

“Sorry. But, really, Cara, it’s not like you haven’t done this before. There’s nothing to it. You walk down the aisle with your dad, while Arie and I play point.”

“This isn’t a combat situation.” Lord, I hoped it wasn’t. I frowned. “Arie. She has the rings?” Instead of the traditional flower girl, my daughter would be our ring bearer.

“For the twentieth time, she does.” Sam kicked off her heels and wiggled her silk stocking-covered toes, sighing in pleasure. “God, my feet hurt already.” She glanced up. “The rest is a piece of cake. Storm the altar, spit out that I do stuff. Then kiss, which must be old news after that heart-shaped bed. What’s so complicated about that?”

I refused to touch her comments. “It’s not the mechanics of the process.” It was the emotions. Those shot through my insides like firecrackers.

Barbie finished with my hair and came around to stand in front of me, beaming. “You look fabulous.” She pinched my cheeks. Weren’t they scarlet enough already? Sam had declared me too pale a moment ago and plastered on a container’s worth of color.

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