A Camden Family Wedding. Victoria Pade

had a sudden, vivid image of Dane Camden over her, but it was purely physical and inappropriate and she chased it away.

      “But in the meantime,” he said as he paid the bill that had arrived when they’d finished their burgers, “just keep thinking it over and let’s do this wedding for my grandmother.”

      “That I can do,” Vonni said.

      “Without any hard feelings for what happened before?”

      “Without any hard feelings for what happened before,” she agreed.

      And she meant it.

      But as they left the Cherry Cricket and said good-night with plans to meet again Thursday evening, it occurred to Vonni that she was having some softer feelings for Dane Camden that she didn’t want to have.

      That she shouldn’t have.

      Softer feelings that she wasn’t going to let get the best of her.

      Even if she was beginning to understand some of the things she’d heard about him and why so many women in his circle wanted a turn with him.

      Whether or not it would get them to the altar.