The Wedding Secret (23 page)

Moving through the grieving process was different when you were helping someone else through it, too.

“Meg, you know we’ll all do what we can. Mom, Kevin, and I will help you through this.”

Meg nodded. She was thankful she had her family. Her brother played professional baseball and lived across the country, but she knew when he heard about this he’d be back here with a Louisville Slugger in hand to crack heads. He’d also be the one she’d ask to hire a lawyer.

But none of this solved the problem she had with her life. She was a teacher who didn’t make the kind of money she needed to fight the Campbells and their lawyers, and she wasn’t married, something that was going to be a factor in any argument in court. If she’d been related to the Campbells it might be different, but she wasn’t. Things hadn’t changed. She was still the house manager’s daughter, nothing more.

Mr. Campbell had once said that Meg should “learn her place.” Yeah, nothing had changed. That family was still trying to put her in her place.

Jeannie Moon
has always been a romantic. Married to her high school sweetheart, Jeannie has three kids, three lovable dogs, and a mischievous cat and resides on Long Island, NY. If she’s more than ten miles away from salt water for any longer than a week, she gets twitchy. Visit Jeannie’s website at www.jeanniemoon.com.