Home for the Summer by Mariah Stewart

Author:Mariah Stewart [Stewart, Mariah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780345534651
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-05-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

CLAY sat in the front seat of his Jeep, his cell phone up to his ear.

“No, I understand,” he was saying. “It’s okay. Do what you have to do.”

“That’s just it,” Lucy replied. “There are too many things I have to do in too short a period of time. I’m so sorry to cancel, Clay. I just didn’t realize how jammed the schedule was. I mean, I should have, I’ve been doing this long enough, but you just can’t always predict when something is going to go wrong. And it seems that when one thing goes wrong, everything else falls like dominoes.”

“How did Susanna Jones take it?”

“She’s disappointed but she’s trying to understand. The good news is that she and Robert did sign the contract, so they’re locked in for their wedding at the end of June, which will take a crazy amount of work to pull off in just a few months. I did explain to her that if similar circumstances arose during the week before her wedding, she’d want me to drop everything and take care of her crisis, which she totally would.” She made an exasperated grrrr sound deep in her throat, and he could tell she was getting worked up all over again. “Honestly, you spend years building up a list of vendors you feel you can trust, and then something like this happens.”

“You have other caterers you can call on, though, right?” he asked, trying to sound reasonable and coolheaded.

“Yes, but none of them are available on such short notice.”

“Maybe you’ll need to try someone new,” he suggested.

“I did think of that,” she admitted. “I’ve even printed out the emails from caterers who have contacted us in the past trying to get onto our preferred list. I hate to use someone I don’t know, because if they’re terrible, there goes our reputation. Then again, perhaps bad food could be perceived as better than no food.”

He laughed to lighten the mood. “I’m sure there’s someone in that pile of emails who would be so happy to have the chance to make your A-list that they’ll do a bang-up job.”

“I’m hoping you’re right. I’ll check each of their websites before I start making calls, maybe see who’s got the best résumé, and who’s available to bring me some samples between now and Saturday.” Lucy sighed. “And then I can turn my attention to convincing the bride that having colored calla lilies—which are the only kind the florist tells me she can get this week—will be so much better than the all-white ones she’d had her heart set on.”

“What happened to the white ones?” he asked.

“Something about a crop failure, though why it affected only the white ones, who knows?”

“So what are you going to do about the Magellan wedding?”

“Susanna is going to fly out next week and we’ll go over everything that we would have gone over if I’d come east. Right now we need to run through the basics, and we can do that from here.

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