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“Let’s just breathe slowly,” Cynthia says as she walks to the door and grabs the handle. “We’ll walk over to the aisle and when you see your handsome groom standing at the alter, I’m sure you’ll change your mind.”
“I won’t.”
“Let’s try.”
My eyes narrow on her. “You’re my maid of honor, Cynthia. Do your job.”
“I’m trying to,” she says, huffing out in exasperation. “I’m trying to calm you down.”
“You shouldn’t be trying to calm me down!” I say with my voice rising. “You should be getting me car keys and distracting everyone while I climb out the window and make a run for it.”
Her shoulders drop and she looks at me. For the first time today, she’s really looking at me.
“You really don’t want to do this?”
I shake my head.
“Alright.” She bursts into action. The panic in me starts to subside now that she’s on my team.
“Take my car,” she says as she grabs her purse and pulls out her keys. “You’ll need this too.” She gives me all the cash she has on her and I shove it into my bra. “I have clothes in my trunk that you can change into.”
“Thank you!” I say as I grab her hand and cling to it. “I’ll never forget this!”
“Where are you going to go?”
“I don’t know,” I say as my mind races. I never thought past getting out of this room.
“Go to those cabins in Montana that we used to stay at,” she says. “In Caldwell. Remember those?”
“Yes! That’s perfect.”
“They’re about two hours away,” she says as she hurries me over to the window. “Lay low there for a couple of days until Mom cools down.”
“I don’t have my phone!”
“It’s okay,” she says as she gives me her credit card. “For emergencies only! I’ll call the main desk and ask for you when everything has calmed down.”
“You don’t mind breaking the news to everyone?” I say as she opens the stained glass window. Cold winter air hits us like a slap in the face.
“Do I mind going into that full church and announcing to everyone that you left?” she says with a laugh. “What do you think?”
“Thank you!” I kiss her cheek and she boosts me up. I climb through the window and stop before leaping out. “You’re the best sister ever.”
She shakes her head, but there’s a smile on her face. “And you’re the craziest sister ever.”
I blow her a kiss and then leap down. My beautiful satin slingback pointed-toe pumps land in cold wet slush.
Frigid January wind slams into my bare arms as I hit the unlock button on Cynthia’s key.
Her little mint green car lights up and I grin when I spot it.
A few minutes later, I’m blasting the heat, blasting the radio, and singing at the top of my lungs while I barrel down the highway—the church nothing more than a speck in my rearview mirror.
ChapterTwo
Leo
“Get this,” my older brother Michael says as I grab my ax and bring it crashing down onto a log. It explodes apart. “Leo doesn’t think he needs a mate.”
