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Authors: Elena Aitken
Nothing Stays In Vegas (36 page)
"Hi, sugar. How's work today? Are you girls busy over there?"
Leave it to Dad to put business first.
"Very," she said. "'Tis the season and all that. What's up?"
There was a silence on the line and in that instant, Andi knew she wasn't going to like what she heard.
"Well," he said after a moment. "I'm afraid I don't have very good news. I know you were looking forward to a family Christmas this year."
'Looking forward to', weren't really the words she would have chosen, more like, 'would tolerate'.
"But plans have changed," Andi's dad was still talking.
"What do you mean, plans have changed? Christmas is in five days."
"That's just it. Roxanne decided she'd like to go to Disney World this year and the boys are at a good age for the Magic Kingdom and she found a great last minute deal and-"
"Wait," Andi stopped him. "Did I hear you right? You're ditching me, your only daughter, to spend the holidays with Mickey Mouse?" Andi's chest tightened and she took a sip of water.
"We leave tonight."
"I've never been to Disney."
"Did you want to come?"
"You know I don't."
"We'll be back for New Year's, if you want to come over then?"
The only thing more pathetic then the prospect of spending Christmas alone was the idea of spending New Year's Eve with her father and his child bride.
"No thanks," she said.
"What about your mother?"
"She's on a cruise with Val," Andi said. "I told you that." And she had, but he'd likely blocked it from his memory, as he did with any reminder that his first wife had left him for another woman.
"Well, you're always saying how busy you are at this time of the year and-."
"Don't worry, Dad. I'll be fine," she muttered. "Merry Christmas, Dad."
She hung up before he could return her well wishes. She didn't want to hear them.
"Eva," she called into the back room. "Where did you put that promo invite for Castle Mountain Lodge?"
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