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or up to the standards of a Royal Wedding.”
    He chuckled. “I’m sure Joseph has a few loose diamonds you can glue on them that will class them up in no time.”
    She stared at him for a moment and then burst out laughing so hard she sat down on the floor. After a moment he started laughing, too.
    “It will be the world’s first million dollar trash bag,” he said.
    “I’d pay to see that,” she gasped. “Not a million dollars, but I’d still pay.”
    “And then Geanie’s mother will demand to know how come the trash bag is wearing more diamonds than her daughter.”
    “Stop, please,” Cindy said, clutching her side. “It hurts to laugh.”
    And just like that she had lifted his dark mood and destroyed his resolve to keep his distance. That was the magic of Cindy. It was also the danger.
    “Okay, how about I start hauling some of this stuff out to the car.”
    “That’s a good idea,” she said, slowly getting up from the floor. “I’ve only got a few more things to pack...I hope.”
    “You know there will be something Geanie will have to come back here for,” he said.
    “That’s what I’m afraid of, and trying so hard to avoid. Oh!” she said, suddenly startled. She darted into the dining room and returned with an enormous box. “I nearly forgot the supplies for the wedding favors. We were supposed to assemble these tonight. I don’t know when we’re going to have time now, but it’s got to be done.”
    “Is that all of it?” Jeremiah asked.
    “No, there’s five more boxes like this and then two giant boxes.”
    “That’s a lot of wedding favors.”
    “Have you seen the size of the guest list?” she asked.
    “I confess I haven’t.”
    “I have. I had to go with Geanie to the post office the day she mailed out all the invitations. All fifteen hundred of them.”
    He stared, amazed. “And presumably a lot of those were going to homes with more than one person.”
    “Yup.”
    “So, how many people RSVPd to say they were coming?”
    “So far? All of them.”
    “That’s not possible.”
    “That’s what Geanie said after the first two hundred all came back yes.”
    “For the first time I understand people who choose to elope,” he said with a shake of his head.
    “I know, right?” Cindy asked as she went to get another box.
     
    It turned out to be the world’s biggest puzzle trying to fit everything into Jeremiah’s car so they wouldn’t have to make more than one trip. Jeremiah finally accomplished it even though it meant Cindy had to carry one of the larger boxes on her lap. The box was so large she couldn’t see over it or around it and by the time they made it to Joseph’s she was a bit carsick.
    Joseph opened her door and took the box from her. “I thought Geanie wasn’t moving all of her stuff here until after the honeymoon,” he said, sounding bewildered.
    Cindy got out of the car and took a deep breath of the cold air which made her feel better. “Dear, sweet, delusional Joseph. That’s going to take an army to move that stuff. This is just the wedding stuff. And no peeking at any of it or she’ll have my hide.”
    “She’s serious about that,” Jeremiah said as he got out of the car and popped the trunk.
    “Understood. So, let’s find a place where we can put all of this.”
    It took about an hour but they finally got everything sorted into the appropriate rooms. Cindy and Geanie were sharing guest rooms next to each other while Jeremiah was in a room across the hall. A formal sitting room Joseph never used became the repository for the boxes of wedding favor supplies and a few other things.
    It was all Cindy could do not to laugh when Joseph was carrying the trash bag into the house. Jeremiah didn’t help by miming putting little sparkling diamonds on the bag. Fortunately Joseph was too distracted to notice.
    When everything was done Cindy stood in the sitting room surveying the boxes. She and Geanie were going to have to work on assembling the