Had Maeve received a blow to the head? Had she? Surely even her most stubborn child could not be so ardently avoiding the very obvious fact that this union was utterly unsanctioned and would make the whole family notorious? Worse it might well make Maeve a laughing-stock - what kind of woman married somebody she had so publically lambasted? People would think she was no more than the hysterical woman they painted them all as and Cait felt a true sense of disappointment.

Or she would, once the heart attack had stopped.

"Joy?!" She spat, rising to her feet and advancing on Maeve, her entirely unintimidating height useful against only her daughter and children below school-age. "You truly expect me to be pleased by this?"

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