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An Excerpt From: WEDDING STUD
Copyright © EVE VAUGHN, 2007
All Rights Reserved, Ellora's Cave Publishing,
Inc.
For once, she was pleased with her appearance, but what
was the point in looking good if she had no date to the wedding? She hadn’t
intended to go in the first place, but her mom and Aunt Helen had pleaded,
feeding her some bull about families sticking together and being there for
one another. Well why the hell hadn’t anyone told Barbara that when she’d
stolen Penny’s boyfriend?
Tana had suggested that not
going to the wedding would send the message that Penny still cared for Chad,
giving their cousin more ammunition to gloat. The best revenge would be
showing up and having a great time.
If she were being honest with herself, Penny was over Chad,
but her cousin’s betrayal was what cut the most. Barbara, having no shame
whatsoever, made a big deal about Penny not having a date for the wedding,
pushing Penny so far that she felt she needed to make something up.
“For your information, I do have a date.”
The smug expression on her cousin’s face turned to one
of disbelief. “Oh really?”
“Yes, really. Surely you didn’t expect me to still be
mooning over what’s-his-name. Actually, the two of you did me a favor. Had
you two not, uh…fallen in love, I never would have met Cole.”
Barbara’s lips had tightened and eyes narrowed. “Why is
this the first time I’m hearing about it?”
“Come on, Barb, do you ever really listen to anyone when
the subject isn’t about you?” Tana had cut in,
saving Penny from digging herself deeper in the hole she’d created.
Barbara had not been amused.
The lie she’d made up, however, had put Penny in an
awkward position. Now not only did she have to attend the blasted affair,
but she’d have to bring a date.
Tana, bless her scheming
heart, had suggested hiring a date for the night. With only a month before
the wedding with no prospects, why not pay for someone to pretend to be
madly in love with her?
Penny though the idea ridiculous, but as the event grew
closer, desperation set in. As if the hand of fate had intervened, she’d
come across and ad in the newspaper.
Need a date to an important event in a hurry? Want to
impress your friends with Mr. Tall, Dark, Handsome and Successful? Then
call Studs for Hire. You won’t be disappointed.
Sure the ad was cheesy, but what choice did she have?
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