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“Okay,” Liddy said before she retrieved my purse and my coat.
Laila pulled me up from my seat and helped me into my coat. She grabbed my purse and put in on my shoulder before pushing me toward the door.
He’d just told me he loved me and now I might be losing him? Life doesn’t really happen like this, does it?
* * *
“Ms. Averie Patterson.”Pastor DeLucas welcomed me to the pulpit.
I stood, took a deep breath. I looked at the black lacquered casket with gold accents adorned with beautiful red roses.I can’t believe this has happened.I made my way up the carpeted steps to stand behind the podium of the pulpit.
I looked out on the audience. Some of the faces I knew and some of them I did not. One thing they all had in common was they all seemed as sad and devastated as I was. I looked down at the paper I was gripping tightly. I figured the paper contained the speech I was about to give.Why did I agree to this?I placed the paper on the podium then looked down at it to read it. I couldn’t make out any of the words. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t figure out what the paper said, so I winged it.
I took a deep breath and began to speak, “Samuel and I met when his firm asked me to come on as co-council for one of their cases. I was so excited about the possibility of working with the world-renowned Valentine Law Group. Samuel, however, was not welcoming. I thought he was absolutely gorgeous, but his attitude needed some adjusting.,” I chuckled. “I started spending time with him, and in no time flat, I understood why people spoke of him the way they did. I understood how people were mesmerized by the deep cadence of his voice.
I was.
I watched him work, and he gave me access to his brilliant mind, then, I fell in love. We fell in love. We loved hard. We had a love that could only be described as…”
“Averie!”
My sister stood up in the audience calling my name. I looked at her and couldn’t understand why she wasn’t dressed in funeral attire like the rest of us.
“Averie!” she yelled my name again. This time she was standing right next to me.
“Sweetie, wake up.”
I opened my eyes and looked around. I was still in the waiting room of the hospital.
“El?”
“He’s still in surgery.”
