A Beginner's Guide To Saying I Do by Jennifer Joyce

Author:Jennifer Joyce [Joyce, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-08-15T03:00:00+00:00

Rory was going to New York and he’d left it until the night before to let Trina know. Or, rather, he’d left it to his grandmother to spill the beans the night before. When Rory would have divulged his plans if it had been left to him was anybody’s guess. As he packed his bags? Or via a quick last-minute text as the plane taxied along the runway?

‘Of course I was going to tell you.’

Trina had waited until they were safely out of earshot in the annexe before she aired her grievances. Rory liked to conduct their conversations in private, after all.

‘But it was all very last-minute. I didn’t find out myself until this morning.’

Which was fair enough, until you factored his mother in. ‘Why couldn’t you tell me when you told your mum?’ Or even before. No – what a crazy idea that was!

Rory kicked off his shoes, letting them fall to the bedroom floor with a thud. ‘I saw her this afternoon. She was in town, so we met for lunch and it came up. By the time I got home, we were in a rush to get to Carrie’s dinner.’ He unbuttoned the top three buttons of his shirt before peeling it over his head and discarding it onto the floor with his shoes. Trina had almost forgotten how sculpted her husband’s body was. They hadn’t had sex since their honeymoon, before Rory burned himself to a crisp and rendered all movement agonising. They shouldn’t be fighting over a trip to New York – they should be taking her mother’s advice and consummating their marriage. Repeatedly. Isn’t that what newlyweds did? Their marriage had got off completely on the wrong foot and it seemed like an uphill battle every single day, but it didn’t have to be that way.

‘I’m sorry, okay?’ Trina unfurled herself from the bed, where she’d slumped on their arrival back at the annexe. ‘It was just a shock.’ She placed her hands on her husband’s bare chest. Forget New York. Right now she didn’t care if Rory was about to take off for Timbuktu. They’d just have to make the most of the few hours they had left.

‘It’s all right, babe. I should have told you earlier, but it’s been so hectic.’ Rory twirled a stray curl around his index finger. It was the most contact they’d had since the sunburn incident. ‘But things will get better, I promise. I’ll take some time off work after New York and we can start looking for a house of our own.’

‘Really?’ The annexe had always been a temporary measure, but he hadn’t made so much as a murmur about moving into their own place since the wedding.

Rory cupped Trina’s chin in his hand, lowering his face until they were nose to nose. ‘Really. I love you, Trina. You know that, right?’

Trina forgot about New York and the crushing disappointment her marriage had been so far. Rory loved her, as he went on to prove with toe-curling gusto.

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