Chapter 13
Charlotte’s eyes narrowed slightly. Then, as quickly as it appeared, the look vanished, replaced by her brilliant smile, “You’tenight. I should focus on making our wedding perfect.” She leaned forward, her hand finding his. In fact, I was thinking what if we moved the date up? Two months instead of four?”
Two months? Charlotte, that’s impossible. The divorce paperwork
we could argue abandonment
“But that’s just ” She squeezed his hand. “My cously. He says Amdocs the divorce we could fast track everything she basically appeared, we
Richard owned Abandonment I’m the one who ended things”
Charlotte waved away this detail Technicalities. The point is we could be married sooner. Would that bewondera
Ad she gazed at him expectantly Richard felt strangely hollow. Four weeks. A rushed dworce Alavish wedding he couldn’t realy afford night now, not with the company numbers looking the way they did.
But Charlotte’s eyes were pleading herhand warmin his. And wasnt this what he wanted? A fresh statt. A beautifuly
young wi
again after years of comdorable monotony
Two months sounds perfect,” he heard himself say
Charlotte’s smile wasradant. Tknew you’d agree! On Richard, we’re going to be so happy together Nomore ghosts from the past. Just you and me and our perfect future!
As the kissed him the table, charted to focus on her words. Their perfect future. No ghosts from the past.
omewhere in the back of his mind, financial reports with troubling discrepancies demanded attention. And deeper still, a manory surfaced Amale face that night in the restaurant, the moment she realähed her twenty year manage was over. em the back of h
Richard pushed both thoughts away. The numbers could wait. The memory had no place future with Charle
“Now,” Charlotte was saying her eyes bright with excitement, about the honeymoon villa in Saint Barthy…
And so hard nodded and smiled and agreed to what she suggested, allowing him to belong in Charlotte’s whirlwind away onagging numbers and uncomfortable memories
Away from the growing she might have made emblemistake
