Wedding Wonderland by Samantha Chase

Author:Samantha Chase [Chase, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Six

Cheyenne stared up at the preacher and thought she’d never seen such cold eyes.

“Speak now or forever hold your peace.”

Her heart was racing as she waited for the words–the voice–the one she knew was going to bring a stop to this madness.

Behind her, there were hushed voices, but she couldn’t make out the words. Clutching her bouquet as if her life depended on it, she silently prayed that it wasn’t too late, that she wasn’t going to be forced to marry a madman.

Where are you? She thought to herself frantically. He should have been here by now, and when she glanced to her right, her heart leaped into her throat.

“He’s not coming,” Troy said darkly, for her ears only. “You didn’t really think I’d let him live, did you?”

“Wh…what did you do?”

The preacher cleared his throat, but Cheyenne couldn’t tear her eyes away from Troy, her groom, the man who would likely kill her before the honeymoon was over.

“Wouldn’t you like to know?”

“The roads are cleared.”

Mia screamed at the words, her hand flying to her chest before turning and finding Austin standing in the doorway of her office. He never came in when she was working because he didn’t want to distract her.

Like he just did.

She quickly turned and saved the document before looking at him again. “Already? I thought it would take longer?”

He shrugged and took a few steps into the room. “I think the fact that tomorrow is Christmas Eve spurred the crews on. No one wants to be stranded at home for the holidays. Between the warmer temperatures helping things melt and the limited number of plows, most of the main roads are clear. The secondary ones aren’t quite as good, but…” Another shrug. “We should be able to maybe go to my mom’s or Garrett’s for Christmas dinner if you’d like.”

“That sounds good, but I hate that we don’t have gifts for anyone.” Their plan had been to Christmas shop in Hawaii and bring stuff back for everyone when they had them over when they got home from their trip. “As it is, it’s a little depressing not having a tree. It doesn’t really even feel like Christmas.”

“I thought you might feel that way,” he said, walking closer. She caught him glancing at the computer screen and wanted to push him away because no one–no one–saw her work before it was done.

“You’re writing a thriller about a wedding?” he asked incredulously. “Seriously?”

“Um…”

Raking a hand through his hair–something he did when he was frustrated–he leaned in closer to the screen and she knew it was pointless to stop him.

“Murderous Vows?! That’s what this book is called?” he shouted. “What the hell, Mia? Why would you write a murder mystery about a wedding?”

Jumping to her feet, she felt the need to defend herself. “I had wedding on the brain!”

“But you started writing this before we decided to start planning our wedding. I mean…”

While raking a hand through his hair was his go-to move when frustrated, Mia’s was pacing.

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