A Proper Wife by Marton Sandra

Author:Marton, Sandra [Marton, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Presents 90s
Published: 2011-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

IT WAS, as a wise man once said, déjà vu all over again.

Ryan was standing at the head of a flowe-rbedecked aisle with Frank just behind him. Music was playing softly in the background and a smiling justice of the peace was waiting patiently for events to begin.

“Frank?” Ryan whispered out of the side of his mouth. “Frank, what am I doing here?”

Frank lifted his second Scotch and soda to his lips. “A good question,” he said, “to which I have an even better answer. It’s your life, pal. Why ask me?”

Right, Ryan thought. It was his life. And, just about now, it was time for him to wake up and find out that this was all a bad dream.

Except it wasn’t. It was all frighteningly real. He was about to be married, to a woman he didn’t know, didn’t trust, didn’t like...

“Ryan?”

Ryan blinked. Agnes Brimley, decked out in a flowered dress and tiny veiled hat, had sidled up beside him.

“Would you like me to go and see what’s keeping your lovely bride, dear?”

“Dear” was a word new to Miss Brimley’s vocabulary but everything about her today was new. Different, anyway. She was fairly bubbling with excitement, but then, she seemed to be the only person in the room who didn’t know this whole damned wedding was a farce.

The old witch had smiled more today than in all the years Ryan had known her.

He thought of how quickly that smile would vanish if she went searching for Devon and found her curled somewhere in a corner, refusing to let Bettina drag her out, and he sighed.

“Thanks,” he said, and forced a smile to his lips. “I’ll go and get her myself.”

“Are you sure, Ryan, dear?” Brimley’s lips twitched. “Some say it’s bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the ceremony.”

Ryan’s mouth thinned. “There’s no danger of that for Devon and me, Miss Brimley,” he said.

Ignoring Frank’s faint, indelicate snort of laughter, Ryan went in search of his future wife.

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