A Ring for Vincenzo's Heir by Jennie Lucas

Author:Jennie Lucas [Lucas, Jennie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2016-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

AS SCARLETT SPOKE her wedding vows, looking up at Vin’s dark eyes, she felt like every dream she’d ever had was coming true today.

Every day had been a new dream, from afternoons spent together in the cool autumn countryside, walking hand in hand as they talked about everything and nothing, to the deliciously hot nights they’d explored each other in bed, doing things that had nothing to do with talking. He made her feel...joyful. Sexy. Exhilarated.

He’d made her feel free. Like he accepted her just as she was. Like he...cared for her.

And she’d come to care for him, to respect and admire him. She’d started to even... But the thought scared her.

After all the romantic days and nights together, gazing into each other’s eyes beneath the loggia and teasing each other with hot kisses behind the thick hedges of the garden maze, today’s beautiful courtyard wedding, presided over by Vin’s father, was the perfect end to such perfect days.

As she and Vin spoke their vows in the courtyard, surrounded by his family and friends, Scarlett looked up at him. She’d never seen such stark emotion in his dark eyes.

Was it possible Vin might be falling for an ordinary girl like her?

Scarlett’s voice trembled as she spoke her vows, but Vin’s voice was calm and steady and deep. She felt his lips brush softly against hers as a pledge of forever, and she thought she might die of happiness.

Then everything changed. The tenderness in Vin’s expression hardened, turned cold. As their family and friends came forward in the villa’s courtyard to congratulate them, her brand-new husband dropped her hand as if it burned him and backed away, loosening his tie, as if he could barely stand to look at her.

What had happened? Scarlett didn’t understand. She felt confused and hurt as she followed him into their wedding reception lunch, held immediately afterward in the great hall inside the villa. She tried to tell herself she was being too sensitive. They’d just gotten married, with a lifelong vow. That was what mattered. Not that he’d dropped her hand after he kissed her, and his eyes suddenly looked cold.

But it troubled her as she sat beside Vin at the head table through the elegant wedding lunch.

She looked around the great hall. Maria had outdone herself. The enormous room was filled with flowers and people and music. It was so warm with love, it barely needed the fire in the enormous stone fireplace. When the staff served a lunch of pasta and salad, Vin ate silently beside her. Scarlett smiled at him shyly.

He glowered back.

Scarlett’s cheeks turned hot with embarrassment as she looked away. Maybe it was the sudden tension between them, but her lower back and belly started to ache strangely. She sipped sparkling juice instead of champagne, one hand rubbing her belly over the knee-length, cream-colored satin dress.

She told herself to relax. Whatever was bothering Vin, they had hours to work it out before they left for Rome tonight. He would close the deal with Mediterranean Airlines tomorrow morning.

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