Love and Other Flight Delays by Denise Williams EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Denise Williams
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Multicultural Romances
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
“You’ll be next,” says a woman with a tight perm and spinach in her
teeth. Coming out of nowhere, this sounds vaguely like a threat, and it takes
Cat a moment to realize that the lady—the bride’s aunt, she remembers—is
probably referring to her presence here on Pluto.
“Fingers crossed!” she replies, smiling. Her cheeks ache like the practiced
muscles of an athlete.
The tables are named after celestial bodies. Bridesmaids are seated on
Venus, groomsmen on Mars. Johnny and Susie and their respective parents
are on planet Earth, because as he said during the speeches, she is his whole
world. Mercury is for immediate family, Jupiter for close friends, Saturn and
Neptune for the couple’s extended circle. Uranus has been omitted, for
obvious reasons.
There aren’t enough unattached people at this wedding to warrant the
traditional singles table, and so Cat finds herself stranded all the way out on
Pluto, within arm’s reach of the loos, between Auntie Gladys (of the perm)
and Greg, a friend of the groom’s father who is keen for everybody to know
that the Porsche parked outside belongs to him.
Now, as she sits making chitchat while overcooked salmon and roomtemperature chardonnay muddle in her stomach, Cat finds herself conducting
a mental cost-benefit analysis. The combined train fare and taxi to the scenic
country venue were extortionate, and even though the dress she’s wearing
was off the sale rail and she purchased the cheapest item on Susie and
Johnny’s gift registry, it’s all still more than she can really afford.
She shouldn’t have come. She hardly knows anybody here, was not
granted a plus-one, and has yet to even speak to the bride. But Cat is here
anyway, because she knows this is probably the last time she will ever see
Susie and Johnny.
Soon they will be moving out of London, and the chances
of bumping into them by chance in a pub in Soho will be eliminated. Then, a
year from now, they will either get a dog or have a baby—which of the two is
immaterial—and their social lives will begin to revolve around Sunday walks
and coffee mornings with other parents and/or dog owners.
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