“This is going to be so much fun. We’ve been rehearsing our parts on the plane ride,” Ming announced to a sea of nodding heads. “Oh, and Lloyd asked me to be on the board of his new company. It’s been a very productive trip already.” The Widows were raring to go.

Alexa followed, dressed in another of her seemingly endless supply of stunning silk ensembles because her mission was different from the Widows’. She had to pay homage to Hizzoner. She double kissed Abigail. “I can’t believe we’re doing this. Are we crazy?”

“Yes. I think we might be,” Abigail said as a black town car pulled up alongside the jet on the tarmac. “You look gorgeous. Looks like your car is here. I guess the mayor wants you all to himself. Are you picking him up at the office on the way to his place?”

“That’s the plan. Or, I should say, his plan. My plan is to confirm all the details and be in my hotel room by nine. Wish me luck!” Not one person within earshot believed Alexa. Surely, the mayor was involved in this scheme for reasons that included the dark-haired goddess who stood before them in elegant Athenian ready-to-wear.

“We want all the details,” Frannie bellowed.

“Every. Single. One,” Mitsy echoed, but at a lower volume.

Alexa slipped into the back of the car and waved to her crew. “See you tomorrow!”

Once Coach Sarah and Lloyd stopped making out, she instructed the Widows, “Load up, ladies! You, too, Lloyd!” Then she high-fived all the women as they boarded the van. “Let’s remember, ladies, teamwork makes the dream work!”

Chapter 29
Dinner with Timmo

The Mother of the Bride

“I was expecting a drafty dining room in Gracie Mansion.”

“I only pretend I live there. I host events, staff parties there. I even sleep there on occasion. But you’re right. It is drafty, and old. And I had enough old, drafty housing growing up in Galway. This place is more my style. Can I get you a drink?” the mayor of New York asked Alexa as he loosened his tie and headed to the bar cart.

She nodded. “I’ll have what you’re having.”

He nodded. “An old-fashioned it is.”