Clover Park Bride by Kylie Gilmore

Author:Kylie Gilmore [Gilmore, Kylie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, romantic comedy, humor, chick lit, women's fiction
Publisher: Extra Fancy Books
Published: 2018-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Six nights of increasingly worse nightmares had Nico on edge. Today was their wedding day, and Lily was at his parents’ house getting ready. The job for Missy wasn’t a sure thing. Vince and Sophia were finishing up a big project and hadn’t had a chance to look at the numbers to see if they could afford an office manager. They already had a receptionist on staff, who did some filing and stuff. No one else in his family knew anyone who was hiring. His own staff was full. Timing was everything. He hoped Vince and Sophia would come through at the wedding reception, but he didn’t know. Without that, he couldn’t move forward with finding Missy an apartment. He’d wanted to have the total package, an irresistible offer that would change her mind. As it was, Missy was sticking to her decision to go back to Seattle.

He stared out into their backyard, not really seeing anything. He still had three hours before he had to show up at the park. Someone knocked on the door. Huh. Kind of early for his brothers but whatever. The rented tuxes were here, and they planned on getting ready and driving over together.

He answered the door, surprised to find Missy on his front porch wearing her regular clothes, not her maid-of-honor dress. Her expression was tight.

His stomach dropped, his heart thudding in his ears. “What’s wrong?”

“Lily’s fine,” she said. “I just forgot the something old I wanted to give her.”

Something old? He stepped back and she walked in, heading upstairs. He waited on the living room sofa, planning to ask Missy how Lily was doing. Lily had decided it was best if they didn’t talk or see each other before the wedding for good luck. He didn’t see what luck had to do with it. They either fit or they didn’t.

Long minutes passed and then it got noisy upstairs, Missy talking to herself and banging around up there.

“You need help?” he called upstairs.

No answer. Just more banging and muttering.

He walked upstairs and stopped in the hallway outside Missy’s bedroom. She was standing, her back to him, hands on her hips, facing a pile of crap strewn all over the bed. And then she did the strangest thing, she grabbed some clothes, threw them to the floor, and then sat on the edge of the bed, her face buried in her hands.

He hesitated. Was she crying? Should he call Lily? No, he didn’t want to add to Lily’s stress. He’d find out the problem and solve it if he could. “Missy?”

She straightened and quickly wiped under her eyes. “What?” she asked in a choked voice.

“Do you need some help?”

She glanced back at all the stuff on the bed and gestured to it. “I can’t find them. I’m so mad. I saved up to get her these antique pearl earrings. They were going to be something old.” She turned to him, her eyes watery, her lips, so like Lily’s, pressed together just like Lily did when she was trying not to cry.

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