The Wedding Crush (THE FORTEMANI FAMILY #2) by Mia Heintzelman EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Mia Heintzelman
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Stefano
No one ever told me getting married meant getting used to gray hair.
One day, I was saying “I do,” and we were in love and ridiculously
happy. Then suddenly everything that used to be funny and adorable set her
off, and another gray strand appeared. But I wasn’t worried because I had
my person, and we were growing old together.
Now, twelve years later, the ink isn’t even dry on my divorce decree,
I’ve got the same face—plus or minus a few laugh lines—and a full head of
salt-and-pepper curls that I can’t tell whether they make me look
distinguished or just older.
I adjust the rearview mirror, leaning in to examine my hairline before I
turn up the volume on the “Confidence and Cologne” podcast I’d been
listening to on the drive here to the vineyard. This episode aptly is titled,
“Grieving, Graying, and Getting Back Out There.”
At least it’s not thinning.
Johnny Timmons’s laugh filters through my speakers like he knows my
secret.
“The thing is, after my divorce, I used to be hopeless with women. Like,
so bad.” He chuckles. “If there was a Don’t Do XYZ or Risk Turning Off
Every Woman in a 100-Mile Radius list, I would’ve been the poster child.
Women didn’t want me because I was forthright about my faults to a
fault…”
I deflate back against my headrest.
Good God.
I should probably table this episode for now.
Currently, I’m parked in the brush, off the steps of my family’s
vineyard, not even five hundred feet away from the massive silk-lined tent
on the main lawn. It’s teeming with my three siblings, friends, and most of
Napa’s nobility.
They’re all here to celebrate the matriarch of our family.
Not that Mother does any event on a small scale. Today, though, we’re
marking the occasion of Victoria Fortemani’s sixty-fifth spin around the
sun, appropriately with an outrageously lavish high tea.
It’s more than chamomile and crustless cucumber sandwiches. There’ll
be a full catering army ready to serve and tend to Mother’s every whim. A
long, single fifty-seater table will be dressed in white linen with fine china,
bustling purple peony centerpieces, and collectible teapots. There’ll be
dessert and sandwich towers for guests to nibble on as they chat about every
salacious piece of gossip they can get their hands on.
That’s what I’m worried about.
The Gossip Set loves nothing more than spilling tea about business, real
estate, weddings, divorces, who’s dating who.
After my ex-wife Carina’s post this morning, they won’t want to talk
about—or celebrate—anyone else.
Why waste time chatting up the belle of the ball over scones and jam?
Why not speculate about her eldest son making his debut back into society
as an unmarried man on the day that his ex posts a picture holding hands
with a younger, more athletic, virile man without a gray strand in sight?
“Jesus, why do I even care?”
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