Page 65 of Promise Yule Be Mine
“I…I think I’m in love with him too, but…I don’t know. I don’t want to be with a married guy even if said marriage is just a front.”
“Good!” she said. “Not that there is anything wrong with open marriages and everything, and just to show you how perfect he is he was willing to let me have that just so I could be happy. But no. I don’t want to marry him. I…I changed my mind. Like a long time ago. I was just too scared to admit it.”
“Oh,” I said.
“Yeah. You know that urgent work trip I took last week?”
“How could I forget? You were stuck abroad for a whole week!”
“Well, that’s just it. I wasn’t.”
“Huh?”
“I wasn’t stuck. I was in Chicago. Just taking a little R&R.”
I gasped. “What? Why?”
“Because. I saw how you two looked at each other. There were instant sparks. And I thought maybe if I was out of the way you’d realize you were meant for each other.”
“I can’t believe you.”
“Well, it worked, didn’t it?”
I frowned. “Yeah, lucky for you.”
She raised an eyebrow and patted my hand. “Trust me honey. It was way more than luck.”
“What?”
“Did you think making you do the invitations, the tux shopping and all that stuff was a coincidence?”
My jaw dropped. “You orchestrated it all?”
She grinned. “Yes. I mean it was lucky we hadn’t done much for the wedding because I’d changed my mind, but when I saw you two together I quickly came up with a plan.”
“You’re devious. Evil, even.”
And at this moment, I didn’t think I could love her any more.
“Oh, I know.”
I was about to say something when it hit me. “You canceled the baker in Springfield, didn’t you?”
She cackled like an evil witch and I wasted no time. I grabbed her and hugged her tight. “You don't know how relieved I am.”
“Good. Why?”
“Because! I didn’t betray you.”
“Oh. Of course you didn’t, silly. Now, what are you going to do with the truth? Are you going to get your man?”
Was I?
She’d just handed me my dream man on a platter after months of obsession and turmoil.
“I’d be an idiot not to.”
“Great. Let’s go because I’m freezing my butt in here. I need to have a word with Gray about turning the heating off in the evenings.”
