She shut her eyes, hating the desperate feeling constricting her chest. She wanted to scream and rail and break it back down. The hard, distant look in his eyes held none of the tenderness from the day before. She chanced a glance at him in the rearview mirror. It had been a hard trip and he hadn’t gotten much sleep. She blinked back tears, focusing on the beautiful garden lanterns that blinked from the trees surrounding the Summer Valley Bed and Breakfast. “We’re going to be late,” he said abruptly.īefore she could respond, he was out of the truck and pulling their bags from the back. She wasn’t ready for the fragile bond between them to break. Suddenly, she didn’t want to get out of the truck. She pulled her bottom lip between her teeth and her heart hammered out a nervous rhythm. She’d thought that after the way they connected last night they’d be on solid ground, but she’d never felt more uncertain. At one point in their relationship she would have welcomed that silence, but now it was unnerving.
The same way he’d been for the past eight hours. Nate turned off the ignition, his gaze fixed on the steering wheel.
They’d actually made it in time for the rehearsal dinner. I can’t even imagine what it’s going to look like in the daylight.”Ī catering truck was parked around the side of the estate house and music drifted up on a breeze from the back veranda. “Oh, my God…I thought they were having this wedding at a bed-and-breakfast,” Lilly said in awe as she leaned forward to get a good look at the sprawling property and towering nineteenth-century mansion in front of them.
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