A Wedding in the Sun by Leonie Mack EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Leonie Mack
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‘He punched me in the arm, Mum! He’s a little shit.’
Jo paused, grumbling inwardly as the busy airport around her faded at
her daughter’s words. Ben couldn’t take a little responsibility for his kids’
emotional stability at a time like this? Another ten days and the ‘little shit’
would be their stepbrother.
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‘I’ll be there tonight,’ she assured Liss, hoping her daughter couldn’t
hear the tightness in her voice. Tonight, she would turn up for the happy
pre-wedding festivities for her ex-husband and the beautiful woman he was
marrying. Sarcasm would only protect Jo from the shards of her marriage
for so long.
‘That’s hours yet,’ Liss complained. ‘This whole time Dad’s made us
look after Oscar.’
Her grip tightening on her suitcase, Jo swallowed some choice words
for her ex-husband and wondered what she could say to placate her
daughter when she agreed wholeheartedly. Ben should be supporting them
through all the changes in their family, not forcing them to babysit, as
though that was the only reason they were invited to this wedding that
would create his new family. And from what Jo had seen of seven-year-old
Oscar, he was a little shit.
‘I don’t even want to be here!’ Liss cried. ‘I’m seventeen. I’m not a
flower girl! I don’t want to stand up with Mónica like she’s my new best
friend, and the dress she bought is hideous!’
‘I thought you liked it,’ Jo responded to the easiest part of that sentence.
She pressed the back of her hand to her forehead, as though that would slow
down the spinning of her thoughts. ‘I just assumed it was what all the kids
wear these days.’
‘Mum! I didn’t think I had a choice so I was nice about it. If you thought
it looked ugly, you should have said something! I don’t even want to go to
the ceremony. I’d rather be at school!’
Jo didn’t appreciate the reminder that the kids were missing school for
this farce. The requirements of Mónica’s Spanish family seemed to be more
important in the schedule than the children’s education and apparently the
wedding was such an important occasion that it involved more than a week
of ‘festivities’.
‘Maybe we can choose something else when I get there,’ Jo said,
grinding her teeth. Ben even needed her to sort out the kids while he
married someone else. God knows there was no other reason she’d attend
his wedding. ‘Put Declan on?’
There was some rustling and then an inarticulate grunt, which was the
usual greeting from her fourteen-year-old son.
‘Hey, Dec, hang in there, okay?’
‘Yeah, Mum.’
‘If Oscar gets too difficult, just let him play with your phone,’ Jo
suggested, trying to tamp down on her worry.
‘I’m not going to let him touch my phone!’ Dec exclaimed, as though
he’d rather be punched in the arm than let a seven-year-old near his prized
possession.
Jo stifled a sigh. For all she knew, Mónica was one of these anti-screen
mothers who would be horrified and Jo really shouldn’t feel satisfaction at
the prospect of riling up Ben’s bride. Urgh, the word ‘bride’ made her gag.
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