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“My nerves have been bad before. This is different. I think I might actually be sick. Unless...”
“Unless what?”
“Well, I didn't throw up until after I ate breakfast.”
“Do you think the food was bad?”
“I think that nothing is a coincidence right now. We've had too many attempts to sabotage this wedding already.”
“You think someone did this on purpose?” Mira sounded shocked. “I suppose food poisoning isn't a far stretch from all that they've done. We’ll be right there.”
“I can't let this ruin the wedding. Not just because these people are trying to stop it but because I want to be married to Teo.”
“We will see what we can do for you as soon as we get there. I'm going to get room service to bring you sports drinks, water, Jell-O, and anything else I can think of that's good for stomach problems.”
“I don't know if that's a good idea. The breakfast I ate was from the kitchen here.”
“I will call the manager of the hotel restaurant and get him to personally oversee the preparation of everything. You just lay down and rest until we get there.”
“Okay. Thank you Mira.” We hung up the phone and I leaned back on the headboard and closed my eyes.
Mira already had a key to my room in case of emergency, so she let herself in when they arrived.
“Oh, you poor thing,” Vittoria said quietly as she walked over and felt my forehead with the back of her hand. “You're not running a fever. I think you're right. It could be something you ate.”
“I agree,” Mira said. “Which is why it's important that we give you all the fluids we can to try to flush whatever it is out of your system.”
Room service arrived a short time after with everything from dry toast to electrolyte drinks, and bananas.
For the next two hours, Mira and the other girls employed every known old-wives tale to help relieve me of my food poisoning and by mid-afternoon, I felt almost completely better.
We rushed out of the hotel with bags of beauty products and our dresses draped over our arms as we hurried to the car. We had to skip the massages, but Mira had been able to reschedule our hair and makeup appointments. It was nice to sit back and catch my breath, knowing that we were back on schedule.
Once we were finished with our makeovers, the four of us piled into Mira's rental car with our dresses in the trunk and headed toward the gorge.
“Thank you all so much for helping me feel better.”
“That’s what we’re here for.” Vittoria smiled at me and squeezed my shoulder from her seat in the back.
“We make pretty good physicians if I do say so myself.” Mira playfully smirked at me from the driver seat, and I chuckled.
“I’ll have to warn Arman that he might have some competition.”
“Tell him I said to bring it.” Mira laughed.
Another small twinge of nausea came over me and I popped a ginger candy into my mouth.
“Still feeling bad?” Mira glanced at me with concern.
“Just a little wave every now and then but I’m feeling a lot better.”
“I can’t believe you got food poisoning on your wedding day.” Courtney added from the back.
“I can’t believe I got kidnapped on my first wedding day, held captive, then had my wedding location vandalized. By this point, the food poisoning does not surprise me in the least.”
“I guess you have a point there. I sort of feel like we should wrap you in bubble wrap until you say, ‘I do.”
We all let out a chuckle but part of me didn’t think that Courtney was far off with her idea. I worried that even a small wedding in a public place would be too dangerous after everything our enemies had tried to do to keep us apart.
