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Of course she’s allergic to bees.
And what kind of bee hangs out when there is no sunlight whatsoever?
“Does she carry an EpiPen?” I called out, trying to hide the panic from my voice as the woman struggled for air.
“Yes.” Robby ran over, hysterical, and was soon on the ground beside his mother.
She was coughing and grabbing her throat.
“She keeps it in her undercarriage if she doesn’t have a purse,” Robby said.
Did he seriously just say “undercarriage”?
It didn’t matter. The woman was not okay. I had to think quickly.
I shouted for someone to call 911, and I slipped my hand up her dress, and sure enough, she’d tucked an EpiPen in her pantyhose.
This wasn’t my first rodeo, or my first allergic reaction.
I knew the drill.
I stabbed her in the leg with the pen, and we all hovered around her.
Waiting.
Her hand dropped from her neck, and she blinked up at me, her voice hoarse. “Thank you.”
“Of course.”
The wedding might be a shit show, but I’d basically just saved a woman’s life.
Montana was on one side of me, while Charlie moved behind me.
“I’m on the phone with 911. They’re pulling up now,” he said.
Velveteen came running out to check on Peggy Parker, who was now sitting up, but her dress was still bunched around her thighs.
“Ralph just saw you in your dress before the wedding song played,” Missy shouted. “The marriage is doomed now.”
I sighed and was reassuring my sister that everything was fine when the paramedics came running toward us.
And that’s the moment when the nature gods decided to flash us all the middle finger, and the clouds released the rainstorm from hell.
I wasn’t sure if the marriage was doomed, but the wedding had certainly hit rock bottom.
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Charlie
I’d never seen anything quite like the scene in front of me.
Violet was kneeling down beside the groom’s mother, who’d had an allergic reaction to a beesting.
I couldn’t remember the last time I’d seen a bee, but one had made its way through this dark, cloudy afternoon, and the woman had dropped to the ground.
And then the downpour of all downpours had unleashed on the ceremony.
The rain fell hard and fast.
