The CEO Hired a Size 20 Fake Wife, Then Couldn't Keep His Hands Off Her novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Block Party
"Not at the yard," I told Eleanor on speaker, with Declan still on top of me.
"The yard is a magnificent place for a wedding."
"The yard is a magnificent place for a shift change. I'm getting married on my mother's street."
Silence.
"In December," said Eleanor.
"They'll bring heaters."
"Who?"
"The whole company, apparently," I said. "You said so yourself."
She laughed, one dry bark.
"Good answer," she said, and hung up.
The wedding was on the third Saturday of December, cold and bright, with a sky like a washed plate.
The city had closed the block with orange sawhorses.
Dockworkers had put up white tents the length of the street, with standing heaters glowing under them, and strung lights from stoop to stoop.
Three hundred people came.
I watched them from the top of my mother's stairs, in her bedroom window, in the ivory dress.
I had picked it myself at the boutique where the clerk once made her comment.
She had stood by while the seamstress pinned it, and said, "It looks like you."
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