Once a Champion. Jeannie Watt
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Название: Once a Champion
Автор: Jeannie Watt
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современные любовные романы
isbn: 9781472016508
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Shae’s smile shifted slightly. “We’ve talked and he’s beginning to see things my way. After all, you only get married once.”
“Unless you’re one of the seventy-five percent of divorcées who remarry,” Liv muttered.
“How on earth do you know that statistic?” Shae asked in the same voice she’d used when Liv had actually known the answers to the questions on the history exams in high school.
“I made it up.”
Shae laughed. A real laugh. Then she turned back to the racks and pulled out a pale green sheath. “How about this?”
“Not bad,” Liv murmured. Except for that six-hundred-dollar price tag. Surely Shae wouldn’t do that to her seven friends. Liv glanced over at her mother and recognized the frozen smile, the make-Shae-happy look.
Shae looked at the price tag. “Wow.”
Liv held her breath.
Shae shrugged and put the dress back on the rack, looking over her shoulder at Vivian as she did so. “This is a possibility.”
Liv felt the air whoosh out of her lungs. Really? A six-hundred-dollar possibility? She made an effort to bite her tongue—for her mother’s sake. This was not a matter of Greg or Matt trying to control her. This was Shae. Shae who always got her way.
After two more racks, Shae turned to Liv and Vivian. “Shall we move on to the next place and see what else we can find?”
“Please,” Liv said with feeling, earning herself a sharp look from her mother. “I think we should explore all options,” she added on a more upbeat note. Vivian’s frown relaxed.
At lunch, Shae shook her head as she dipped a tea bag into a cup of hot water. “I think it’s pretty obvious that it’s impossible to find a decent dress for under three hundred.”
“Can you find something you can tolerate?” Liv asked. She’d seen more expensive dresses than she wanted to think about in the past three hours. Each place they went hammered home the point that the wedding industry was all about spending as much as possible to celebrate what? A union that may or may not last? It was a shameful exploitation of a solemn occasion and Shae was plunging in with both feet, practically shouting, “Here I am! Take my money and provide me with an illusion that has nothing to do with reality!”
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