They went home the evening before the wedding.
Stephen did take pity, ringing Jo earlier than that, but the earful of blue words he got for his efforts just made Mike laugh and call him an i***t.
“You knew that’d happen.”
“Yeah, well, we do owe her for ours.”
“True.”
“And she said Jez is threatening to marry her chief bridesmaid.”
“What, Milly? Has Jez seen Milly?”
“Yep.”
“Sodding hell, that’s desperate.”
They got home late in the evening, having swapped driving duty at York after Stephen nearly nodded off at the wheel, and Mike shepherded him upstairs by saying he’d fetch the cat personally. Thankfully, Molly didn’t like Vikki and so was pleased by the return of her better trained staff, curling up on Stephen’s belly to purr contentedly as they settled in for the night. Stephen l
