A Baby to Bind His Bride by Caitlin Crews

Author:Caitlin Crews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

SUSANNAH HAD FORGOTTEN about her parents.

The truth was, Leonidas had taken her into his arms and she’d forgotten everything. The charity ball all around them. The fact they were the furthest thing from alone. That there were smiling business rivals and leering paparazzi and everything in between, with his family’s treachery and the inevitable appearance of her own parents, just to make everything that much more fraught.

It had all disappeared.

There was nothing but Leonidas. The music soaring and dancing along with them. And all the sweet and terrible things that swelled between them, making it entirely too hard to breathe.

She’d felt this way only once before, and it had been far more muted in comparison. What kept racing through her like a different sort of heat was that she was positive Leonidas knew it.

She had been such a confused jumble of feelings on their wedding day. She’d still had such high, silly expectations, of course, no matter how many chilly lectures her parents had given her to prepare her—but he had taken the knees out of each and every one of them. She’d been trembling as she’d walked down the aisle, but the cool, assessing look he’d given her when he’d swept back her veil hadn’t assuaged her nerves any. And then when he’d pressed a kiss to her mouth at the front of the church, it had been little more than a stamp of acknowledgment. As if he was affixing a halfhearted seal to one of his lesser possessions. The things he said to her in the car, the way he’d called her a child, had rocked her. And his total disinterest in her at their own reception, too busy was he talking to his business associates, had hurt her feelings more than she’d wanted to admit even then.

A wise girl would have armored herself a little after all these clear indications that this man did not and would not care about her, and she’d tried. Susannah really had tried—but she’d been so young. So frothy and silly, looking back.

But then there had been that dance. That single dance. When Leonidas had held her in his arms and gazed down at her, something arrested and yet stern on his face that seemed to match the wildfire raging inside her. There had been nothing in all the world but the feel of his intensely strong arms around her and the easy way he’d moved her around the floor, as if he was giving her a preview of the way their life would go. Him, in complete control. Her, a little too captivated by the way he handled her and everything else.

And all of it distressingly breathless and dizzyingly smooth.

She shouldn’t remember it the way she did, in vivid and excruciating detail. And it certainly shouldn’t have played out in her head the way it had all these years, over and over. That dance had made her wonder about him, the man she’d lost so swiftly, more than she’d ever admitted to anyone.

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