The Event Planner's Event: Wedding Party Series, #3

By Nicole Ann Drake

The Event Planner's Event
Sexy Romance Short Story

Everywhere that 28 year old Roberta Bailey looks she sees love but none of it ever seems to come her way. The last blow in was to help her cousin's friend, Mark, plan a proposal to his girlfriend Sheridan. She watches as another perfectly planned event is executed by her company. She worked in collaboration with a restaurant and now has to deal with the restaurant owner in terms of payment. This is about the third event she has planned at this restaurant.

The owner is 32 year old David Nugent. He asks Roberta for a few of her business cards to give to a few clients. In reality he is interested but is not quite sure how to approach her as he is a bit introverted. He devises a scheme to get a little bit more into her space and hires her for himself to plan a surprise for a family member of his. The planning throws them together and ultimately one night after slaving over the final details they end up sleeping together.

The day of the party arrives and Roberta does a brilliant job. She seeks out David to recap and possibly decide what to do after the party when she overhears a conversation between David and someone who appears to be his ex. . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joyce Zborower, M.A.
• Release date: Dec 13, 2015
• ISBN: 9781519926951

Book preview

Book 3—The Event Planner’s Event

Now Mark, you will need to be right here so that as soon as the smoke clears you're the first thing she sees. And you'll be kneeling in the midst of it all with the ring box held up. I hope you did some more work on the actual speech you're going to use when you propose?

Sure did ma'am. Do you want to hear it?

Oh no honey! The only person who should hear it is your darling Sheridan. Don't be wasting your luscious lines on this old spinster.

Awwww come on Berta. You're far from old. Mark flashed her a wink and she couldn't help but smile.

You take care now. See you tomorrow for the big show.

Okay ma'am. Mark flashed a salute and with that exited the restaurant.

Roberta Bailey was left all alone. She sighed as she recalled the past hour. He was so nice. Why couldn't she find a man like him? She could do white. She wasn't partial. She tugged at a lock of kinky brown hair that had been restrained thus far by a scarf. She had worn her hair natural and loose today and it bounced in a confusion of curls around her face and shoulders. Today she was all about shades of brown and everything blended.

She sat down to go over the plans for the proposal and her mind began to wander. She was all of twenty-eight, a gorgeous black woman and single, single, SINGLE! She had not had a man in her life for far too long to remember. Maybe her mother was right. Maybe she was too picky. But she reserved the right to be. Not many women her age could boast having accomplished all that she had. Her mother had filed for her and she had left her father and younger sister behind. She had migrated from Jamaica at the tender age of fifteen and had immediately blended into her new culture. It was in college that she recognized her natural proclivity for planning and executing events and had decided to make a career out of it. Armed with a management degree at age twenty-one