Natasha is busy with plans for the wedding, which is coming upfast. Every night at dinner she monologues about flowers,
menus, table settings, music, vows, favors, and cake untilwants to gag her. She‘s already taken him shopping for a suiand that at least was rewarding. When he tried it on in the stohe was dazzled by the elegant cut and the youthful silhouettegave him. He didn‘t look at the price tag and waited outsidwhile she paid for it with the credit card he‘d given her. The weding is costing him a fortune, and on top of everything else shpushing for a honeymoon in Rio. This is not a good timehim to be throwing money around.
Emotions, Stress, and Aging, consoling herself with the prospectof palm trees and tropical breezes.
Thus it happens that she finds herself in a Jacksonville hotelroom coming awake to the insistent humming of the telephoneon her bedside table. The room is black, with no light showinganywhere, not even around the drapes or under the door. Sherolls onto her side to look at the digital clock with its toxic greennumbers. Not yet six. Sunrise at least an hour away.
day hefore yesterday she hasn‘t thought
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