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A Day to Remember [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
eBook by Fiona Phillips
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eBook Category: Romance
eBook Description:  A modern romantic comedy about love, loyalty and limos. A Day To Remember is a successful business but, when her right-hand man Steve goes off with the limo, Jo is left to pick up the pieces. Bookings are a mess, her home life's in chaos and then her car is put off the road by a Mercedes driver having an argument with a bee. Far from A Day To Remember, it's turning into a week she'd just rather forget....
eBook Publisher: Accent/Accent
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2007
Available eBook Formats [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader - What's this?]: SECURE MOBIPOCKET FORMAT (131 KB], SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT (190 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More., SECURE EREADER (RECOMMENDED) FORMAT (49 KB]
All formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
Microsoft Reader ISBN, eReader (recommended) ISBN: 9781905170906
 
They say bad news, like buses, always comes in
threes. Had I thought about this, early, on that
sunny June Saturday, I might just have stayed
in bed.
But of course I didn?t think about it.
Nothing had happened yet. Instead, I was busy
pulling open the curtains and yawning, and
thinking how soaring summer temperatures
and itchy uniforms don?t mix, however nice
the day would be for the bride.
If you?re chauffeur to a bride, a uniform?s a
must. Because if a wedding?s going to be a day
to remember, all the little details have to be
right. That?s what my firm was called, A Day To
Remember, and we provided special cars for
special days out. Weddings, of course, but also
birthdays and christenings. Whatever, as my
ex-husband used to say, the clients wanted.
Today?s Day To Remember was, as they
often were, a wedding. Second marriage, quite
small, in a hotel. Three hours work for me,
tops, and then I could get home. But before
that, I had to get up and get the wedding car ready. Get the ribbons tied on, get the
champagne nicely chilled, and then get our
elderly Rolls Royce round to the bride?s house
in plenty of time. So no time for a lie-in.
I padded off into the bathroom and turned
on the shower, picking up stray items of Josh?s
clothing as I went. Teenage sons, I thought
fondly, as I coiled up my hair and stuffed it into
a shower cap ? would I ever get him house
trained? I really needed to remind him where
the laundry basket was.
With the shower on at full blast, I didn?t
hear the phone. So the first I knew about the
first bit of bad news was the sound of Josh?s
voice bellowing up the stairs.
?Mum? Mu-um!!?
I switched the shower off. ?Yes??
?Rhys is on the phone.?
Rhys was a local farmer. We kept our two
wedding cars in his barn.
?Coming!? I reached for a bath towel, still
dripping. I trotted down the stairs and Josh
handed me the phone.
?Lovely morning,? Rhys said. I agreed that it
was. ?I was wondering,? he added, ?what you
had on today. Only Tom?s at a loose end and in
need of some cash. You want him to go over
the roller for you??
Tom was Rhys?s son, and was fifteen, like
Josh. And also like Josh he liked to earn himself
pocket-money by washing and polishing our
two cars.
?Don?t worry about the Rolls,? I said. ?Josh
only did it on Thursday. But if he?s keen to earn
some money, he could give the limo a polish.
We?re not going to need it till next weekend,
and it?ll be one less job to do.?
The limo was our other car. We needed both
when we had bigger jobs.
?OK,? said Rhys. ?I?ll have him do that.
When?s it coming back??
?Back? Back from where??
?From wherever it is.?
?It?s not there??
?Nope.?
?Oh, well. I expect Steve?s popped out to get
the tyre pressures checked or something.?
Steve was the driver who worked for me
part-time. I usually gave him all the...
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