Cold Feet

Chapter 13

VIOLA

I hear Rick’s car start and heave a sigh of relief.

It’s been the morning I feared. Call after call from people threatening to sue me or just wanting to rant and blame the fact that they their marriages failed on me. Cancellation after cancellation has followed and I have watched my business being choked to death in a matter of hours.

I call an estate agent who regularly leaves pamphlets in my mailbox. The agency is proactive so I decide to get them in and explore having them list the house for sale.

They answer the phone promptly and I am soon put through to an agent who arranges to meet me at two pm. As I put the phone down, the doorbell rings. I wish I had a fence and gates in front of the property. Too late for that now, I think to myself as I open the door without checking who it is.

It’s the reporter from the television report.

She smiles superficially. I see the cameraman behind her. No doubt the camera is rolling already.

“Good morning Miss Hughes.”

“I’m Dana Rothschild,” she says. “Can we come in?”

closed behind me. “No,

you wish. I assume you

I don’t reply.

of the story on the wedding fiasco last

groom and bridesmaid says

using a Wedding Whisperer at the wedding

and which has, much to my frustration gone viral. I have seen memes all over social media already with people making their own interpretation of a Wedding Whisperer. I just don’t want to give Dana the pleasure of feeling that she

Wedding Whisperer, the person you used to coax the bride, or occasionally groom, into going ahead with the wedding despite their concerns or cold feet. I must admit it was a unique idea but it truly isn’t the best

what? How many times has the Wedding Whisperer helped and the couples

asks seizing on my reply. Before I can say anything she continues, “And how many times have you used a

don’t bother trying

coming in, and they are all, I repeat, all, crying

say nothing as I stare back

a track record as one of the best wedding planners in the game? And as your reputation has grown so have your fees.

will cry and appear weak on national television. I don’t think that’s a good

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