with all of them. although I thought Manon and her
group were really humoring and toying with her most
of the time.
With all my last-minute preparations, I had no
time to be concerned anyway. Both Mother and Amou
hovered around me. Bunny had asked to be called to
my last gown fitting. but I conveniently forgot,
imagining that she would find fault with something
simply because we hadn't taken her advice and used
the people she wanted me to use.
Thatcher had decided that he would spend the
night away. He told me he was going to sleep at the
beach house and that his friend. Addison Steele, had,
as promised, flown in from his home in Paris to attend
our wedding.
"Since we spent so many wonderful nights
there." Thatcher told me. "I think it's only fitting I
sleep there the night before our wedding.
I was too nervous to care or even to listen to
half the things he was telling me. For someone who
had avoided the wedding altar as if it were the
guillotine, he, on the other hand, seemed very cool
and collected.
When we kissed good night. I asked him why
he wasn't at least as nervous as I was. He paused to
consider, then shook his head and shrugged. "I think because it still feels like it's happening
to someone else. But soon enough, the reality will
strike home and then you'll hear my knees knock," he
promised, kissed me on the tip of my nose, and left. A
n hour or so later. I had a phone call from Mr.