Have & Hold
Kat Valdez was going to go insane.
It was only two nights before her wedding to Peter Richards, but she didn’t think she’d live through tonight.
Why in the world did Peter decide to host their rehearsal dinner here at Donovan’s? Sure, he’d reminded her that, on the outside, it just looked like another bar—the place where they’d had their first date. It was a romantic choice; a way for their friends and family and coworkers to share in Kat and Peter’s history before they sealed their future.
And, she supposed, it was nice to spend one last big night at the bar before Donovan’s was scheduled to close down for a complete renovation and their past became a landmark they could only visit in pictures.
Kat supposed that all was true. And romantic. And sweet. She had good memories of Donovan’s.
It’s just that not all of them were quite so innocent as their first meeting.
“So,” she heard her mother say to the tall, leggy, black woman sitting on the barstool beside her, “Pip, was it? How do you know my daughter?”
Oh God.