BREAKTHROUGH (Love's Not Easy Series Book 2) by Nicole Rickman Page B

can we change the subject?  I am getting more depressed each time I think about all of this.”
     
    “Sure. I want to hear all about your meeting today.”
     
    Aimee spent the next half hour telling Aiden all about her day at the office.  They talked about marketing ideas. Then, he told Aimee about a sailing trip he and his brother were planning.  Aimee felt better about things when she and Aiden ended their video chat.
     
    Aimee read the eight other letters her Gran left.  One was to her dad, it didn’t really say anything more than she already knew.  One was for Mr. Montgomery.  It detailed all the things he told had already told her, except for the details about how important it was to keep a secret that they franchise a company in Neahovia.  Opal and Charles each had one.  It was all about the plantation and how she wanted to pay for Brad to go to college.
     
    The one addressed to Mrs. Moon entailed everything she had told her at the bank.  The one to Mark and Tessa was the final plans for the missionary work they had been discussing to help bring God back to Neahovia.  Aimee had always suspected her Gran was the one who fronted the funds for that cause.
     
    Letter seven belonged to one of the lawyers at the office.  It entailed how he was to hire Brad as a lawyer and aide him in whatever he needs to make it through law school.  The eighth letter was for a lady named Donna and it was about a special fund sat up for battered women in remembrance of her sister.  Aimee cried as she read the last letter, no matter how hard Gran tried, she could not protect her sister and that broke her heart.
     
    The letters didn’t hold any further secrets or surprises for Aimee.  She placed them back into her briefcase and took out her notes for the marketing ideas.  She jotted the ideas she had discussed with Aiden.  When she finished, she decided it was time to relax on the porch with her mother’s diary.
     
    December24, 1987
     
    Today was the best day of my life.  RGA escorted mom and I to the Christmas Extravaganza today.  We had such a great time listening to Christmas songs about the birth of Christ.  The play of His birth was so beautiful.  After the extravaganza, he took me for a carriage ride around the HVP.  It is one of my favorite parks.  The carriage ride was one of the most romantic experiences of my life.
     
    The park was decorated in Christmas lights.  When we got to the decorated gazebo, the driver stopped the ride. RGA took my hand and helped me from the carriage.  When we reached the gazebo, he pointed to some lights near the fountain in front of the gazebo.  They spelled out Marry Me.  Needless to say, when I looked up, I seen him on one knee in front of me. I cried like a baby when I said yes.  We kissed all the way to the carriage and for the rest of the ride, he held me close as we discussed a wedding date.  May 4 th is the day we agreed on; it is our two year anniversary and I could not think of a better birthday gift than being Mrs. RGA.
     
    Aimee sat still on the porch; the only noise she could hear were the crickets and frogs.  Her mother was engaged before she met her dad and, unless a lot happened in the next five months of diaries, she was going to be reading about her wedding day to another man.
     
    Opal was watching Aimee from a nearby chair.  She was so into whatever she was reading, she didn’t even notice her and Charles had come out.  She was white now.  She looked like she was staring at a ghost.  Opal eased over to her.  Something was wrong.
     
    Opal touched Aimee’s arm and she jumped off her seat.  She sat down and took the glass of tea Opal held out to her.  “You ok, child?  You are as white as a ghost.”
     
    Aimee shook her head as she drank some tea.  “No.  Did you know my mother was engaged before she met my dad?”
     
    Opal sat in the chair next to her.  “The book is one of you mother’s diaries.  Oh, baby girl. I wish so bad I