Second Chance Secrets by Kathryn Kaleigh

Author:Kathryn Kaleigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KST Publishing

PART II

56

AINSLEY

The following Spring

Thank heavens Madison had chosen spring for her wedding and not summer as she’d originally planned.

The Houston heat was far too brutal, especially since she had an outdoor reception planned.

No one in their right mind would plan an outdoor reception in Houston in the middle of the summer.

Personally, if I were the one getting married, I would have done everything indoors.

The wind was going to destroy everyone’s hair.

But it wasn’t my wedding.

Thank God.

This morning, the day of my younger sister’s wedding, she and I sat at a little restaurant near our apartment in River Oaks.

It was just the two of us for breakfast.

Madison had done that on purpose. She’d breakfast yesterday with our youngest sister Wynter, lunch with Brianna, and dinner last night with Momma and Daddy.

We had all been together two nights ago, but it was impossible to have meaningful and intimate conversations in such a large group.

I sipped my mimosa and watched as people crowded into the restaurant.

“Ainsley?” Madison said, getting my attention. “You seem like you’re a thousand miles away.”

“Sorry,” I said, turning my attention back to my sister.

Considering that today was her wedding day, she seemed to have herself amazingly under control.

But then she had a stylist to do her hair, a girl to do her make up, someone to help her get into her gorgeous wedding dress, and a photographer to follow her around documenting every detail.

Elopement sounded a whole lot better to me than all this.

But. Again. Not my wedding.

“You’re sitting next to one of Kade’s college buddies at the reception,” Madison said.

“Okay.” I really didn’t care who I sat by.

“He’s Kade’s best man.”

“Makes sense, I said with a shrug. “Since I’m your maid of honor.”

I was just ready for this whole weekend to be over with so I could go back to flying.

It wasn’t that I minded spending three days with my sisters and mother. My half-sister Danielle and her mother had flown in from California and all-in-all, it had been enjoyable, especially the day at the spa.

I hadn’t felt so relaxed in…forever.

But today carried an undertone of stress, no matter how much everyone seemed to be trying to ignore it.

Madison swirled her mimosa glass and leaned forward.

“Are you okay?”

“Of course,” I said quickly, hiding behind my own glass.

“It’s just…” Madison was giving me her worried sister look. “You haven’t been the same since you came from Wyoming.”

I shrugged and set down my glass.

The server, a perky college student with a big smile, stopped at our table and put a plate of eggs Benedict in front of each of us.

“If I eat all of this,” Madison said. “I can forget fitting into my wedding dress.”

“Much less that little red dress you’re wearing to your reception.”

I took a bite of eggs and hoped that my psychologist sister would let the subject drop.

The last thing I wanted to do was to make this breakfast about me.

“There’s nothing wrong with my red dress,” she said.

I grinned. “Didn’t say there was.”

“You’re just jealous,” she said.

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