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Both girls sat down and were asked to log into a section of the screen where they could design their own dream wedding and have the information forwarded to them in their email inbox. Lucy rolled her eyes and shook her head. Marketing 101. What a great way to collect email addresses of potential clients.
Lucy followed the prompts and filled in her details, then for the hell of it she had fun with it and planned her dream wedding. She paused for a moment when the groom's initials were requested. She did not know why but she decided to have a bit of daring fantasy fun and keyed in AR. Antonio Romero. Yeah, right. Like that would ever happen.
Lucy felt silly after she’d gotten up from the display screen and looked around to see if anyone was close enough to see what she entered. She quickly decided to delete the information.
It was useless.
Fantasies were not going to make her real life any better—it was only an illusion, she tried to justify to herself. What was she doing here? Lucy decided that after planning the next three weddings that she had already been contracted to do, she would turn over the keys to a new CEO. She was done with planning weddings for others. It was too heartbreaking for her. It would only serve as a reminder of how much she had failed in her own love life.
Oh, Lucy felt down on herself for even thinking such notions. When she thought about the look on Toni’s face or that of her other clients who were in love, she realized that saying something and doing something were two completely different things. It wouldn’t be easy to give up Dream Weddings, Inc.
Just as most people who have difficulty in their jobs, they stick it out for one reason, because deep down inside it is their passion. Either that, or they need money to pay their rent and buy food. Still, she wasn’t hurting as much as she was financially two years ago and she could always try to get a job in psychology, research or teaching but it wouldn’t be as much fun.
If Lucy was honest with herself, then she would know what the real obstacle was. Antonio Romero. She was going crazy out of her mind thinking about him every waking second. She just couldn’t flush his charm, the memory of his sweet kiss, his touch out of her mind. Oh, she tried. But she just couldn’t and because he was as emotionally detached as a slab of steel (hmm, speaking of abs of steel), she knew he was unavailable to her in the way that she would need him to be.
The truth was, as embarrassing as it was, Antonio hadn’t even called her since Monday. Not that she expected him to. Not that he told her he would but after such an intimate lip-locking session, she thought he would at least have tried to reach her or reach out to her.
Damn Antonio!
Why hasn't he called me?
He should have called me.
He should have tried to send me a text message or an email to see how things were going with his grandfather. Or maybe even make an excuse to drop by the office, just as he did last week.
What was it with him?
Was he seeing someone? No. He said he wasn’t.
Lucy then realized that Antonio was hot and sexy and bad in every sense of the word where raw physical attraction was concerned and although she almost went into cardiac arrest when he almost sucked her breath away with that sizzling kiss, it obviously meant nothing to him. At least that’s what Lucy believed. She anxiously bit down on her lip while thinking about Monday night.
“Come on, Maxine,” Lucy finally uttered. “We need to get going. We have a million things to do before the end of the week.”
“Oh, and we must get an appropriate outfit for the ball tomorrow.”
“I don’t think I’m going again. I’ve got too much on my agenda for our upcoming weddings.”
Maxine turned to her as if Lucy had morphed into a vampire or a zombie. “Are you feeling alright? You cannot miss the Diamond Ball, girl. We have to go!”
“Oh, you can go. You can represent the agency. I don’t think we both need to be there. In fact, why don’t you ask one of your friends to go? Or, you and Darla can go in my place,” Lucy murmured, her heart squeezed at the thought of not going but it was for the best.
There was only one solution to prevent Lucy from heartbreak again.
I’ve got to get Antonio Romero out of my system.
