Page 66 of Electric Kiss

“He didn’t take it well?” Maggie asked as she ladled out a bowl of steaming hot porridge.

“None of them took it well. They’re not talking to me. Archer is not letting Teddy come to work with me, Jason isn’t providing breakfast, and Luke has disappeared completely. I would make my own breakfast, but I always hoped I’ll get to my office, and he would’ve gotten over that I had a relationship with our mum. They seem to forget they had years with Dad on the rigs when I didn’t.”

“Give them time. They’ll come around,” Maggie said.

Everyone was saying the same thing. But Daisy needed a timeline.

“I miss them,” she said.

“I bet they miss you too,” Bailey chipped in.

“What about the girls?” Maggie asked.

“They came with Isobel to my office to tell me they are supporting me and working on their stubborn husbands.”

“Do they know about the wedding?”

Daisy shook her head.

“No. Why should I tell them I’m getting married when they won’t hear me out about Mum? I don’t want their sullen faces, and I don’t want to put the girls in an awkward position.”

“Well, Bailey and I will be there. I am so looking forward to seeing Imelda. It’s been too long since I last hugged her.”

“I bet there will be tears all round. You’ll have one set ofgrandparents there. I’m sure they’re going to be overjoyed to see their daughter too,” Daisy said.

Bailey placed a mug of tea in front of her. She handed him her travel mug, and he gave her a wide smile and went to fill it up for her.

“They will be happy to witness their youngest grandchild get married.”

“It will be the quietest wedding ceremony I’ve ever been to. Me and Nate, his parents, my grandparents and you two and my mum. That’s it.”

“Are you sad about that?”

“Not really. I want to be married to Nate. I want to start a life with him, a family. When Warren arrives to take over the Edward Hall accounts, then I will be jobless.”

Bailey came over and placed the travel mug of tea by her side. “You know there are no accountants on Copper Island. All the business send their accounts to the mainland,” Bailey said.

“Really?” Daisy replied.

She thought back to Nate’s call to the hotline and wondered where they got their advice from.

“When one door closes, another opens,” Bailey said.

Daisy didn’t feel quite so dejected at the prospect of being jobless. There was potential if she was completely shunned.

Chapter Twenty-Two

Nate

Nate revved the engine of his motorcycle and pulled away from the curb, the roar of its power echoing along the empty dirt road. He glanced over his shoulder at his passenger. Daisy smiled back at him, her face aglow with excitement. It didn’t take much for her to agree to a bike ride to test out his restructuring.

He’d gone onto the runway like his dad had suggested making sure it was road worthy and then asked if Daisy wanted to go out. She didn’t hesitate to say yes.

It was the night before they were getting married.

“Ready?” he called.

“Always,” she shouted back, though the engine nearly drowned her voice out.

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