Marry Me Again (The Second Chance Love Series, Book 1) (31 page)
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Authors: Teresa Hill
She laughed, the sound tinged with desperation. "I'm not sure how your fiancée would feel about you going away for the weekend with another woman so close to your wedding."
It had to be nearly time, she thought. For weeks, she'd so carefully avoided any information about it, cutting herself off from all social media sites, personal e-mail and even phone calls from anyone she knew from Tallahassee.
Shelly finally noticed that at some point, he'd gone unnaturally still and silent beside her. Shelly made herself look at him. There was a bleakness to his expression, a guarded look to his dark brown eyes, a smile that wasn't really a smile on his lips.
"Brian?"
He just blurted it out then. "Rebecca and I aren't getting married."
"What?"
He loved Rebecca. He'd always loved her, and Shelly believed Rebecca loved him, as well. It was simply the way of the world. He loved Rebecca. She loved him back. In the end, they would be together.
Brian leaned back against the office doorway.
"Actually," he added, "what I said wasn't entirely correct.
I'm
not getting married.
Rebecca
is."
Shelly wondered if her mouth was hanging open again. Twice in the space of two minutes, he'd left her speechless.
This man was going to be the death of her yet. Because she wanted to hope, damn him. She wanted to believe she was going to get another chance with him, and she could not put herself through that yet again. She knew better.
"I'm sorry—about you and Rebecca."
He shrugged. "The wedding's this weekend in Tallahassee. I'm surprised you didn't get an invitation."
Shelly didn't want to tell him she had, though it obviously wasn't an invitation to the wedding she'd expected.
"Anyway," Brian continued, "you haven't been home in ages, and I thought...."
"Wait." Shelly's brain was finally starting to process the news. "What are you doing, even thinking of going to this wedding? You're not going to try to cause trouble? Or stop the ceremony, are you?"
"No. Absolutely not."
"Then what?"
"I have to, Shel. I have to watch her do it," he finally admitted. "I think I'm going to hate every minute of that damned ceremony. But when it's done... Well, it's done. I'll have no choice but to believe it, accept it."
She nodded, understanding all too well. She'd always thought when Brian married Rebecca, she'd be there to see it, until the invitation actually arrived. Then she'd found she didn't have the courage.
"So I asked myself," he said, "where could I find a wonderful woman who'd be interested in spending a weekend in beautiful, exciting Tallahassee, Florida, with me? And naturally I thought of you."
"Naturally." She tried to make light of it, but still felt her cheeks burn.
He had no idea what he was doing to her, how difficult this was. If she went, she'd spin impossible dreams in her head about him forgetting Rebecca and finally turning to her.
One weekend, she thought, to either convince him to see her as someone other than a friend or convince herself to finally forget him and move on.
She was going to do it, going to take this one last chance with him.
His Wedding Date
Second Chance Love
Book Two
by
Teresa Hill
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