A Billionaire Love Affair by Melissa Snow

Author:Melissa Snow [Snow, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-26T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

Cassandra stared absently at the wallpaper, letting her eyes idly pick out patterns and shapes in its design. She had given up, for the moment, trying to conjure a solution to her problem. She had already established that she couldn’t possibly consider staying with Hannah, but she was at her wits’ end as for what to do about it. She still had told no one about the baby.

Her breakfast that morning had stayed down, so that was something, she supposed. She unbraided her hair and let it fall loose against her back. After a moment she stood and retrieved the brush and began to brush and re-braid her hair.

There was a brief knock at the door, and Hannah came in with a newspaper under her arm.

“It’s good to see you up,” she said to Cassandra with a smile. Cassandra offered her a weak smile in return.

“I thought you might like something to read,” she said, offering Cassandra the newspaper.

“Thank you,” Cassandra said, accepting the paper and setting it down.

“I’m going out for a bit. Do you need anything?”

Yes, a man to marry me and help raise my child, Cassandra thought drily. And quickly, please. Time is of the essence, you know!

“No, nothing,” she replied, shaking her head.

“Alright. I’ll be back in a little while,” Hannah said. She let herself out and shut the door behind her.

Cassandra sighed and picked up the newspaper. She made her way over to the window and drew aside the heavy curtain to allow enough light in to read by. None of the articles particularly interested her, but she skimmed through the stories anyway. It was better than staring at the walls and worrying over what to do.

She stopped reading when she reached the personal ads and was about to set the paper down when an advertisement caught her eye.

MATRIMONY – Young widower, reasonably wealthy and intelligent, seeks to make the acquaintance of a young woman, of reasonable intelligence and adaptable, with an eye to matrimony. Must love music. Address Jacob Daughtry, You Bet postal office, You Bet, California.

Cassandra stared at the ad. She had not considered becoming a mail order bride. She wasn’t entirely sure she was considering it now. It was an insane plan. At the mere thought of it she felt a surge of simultaneous horror and an almost electric feeling that she couldn’t quite put her finger on. It was the first thing she had felt in weeks that wasn’t abject despair.

She read over the ad again. What could it hurt to just write him a simple letter? It’s not like just by doing that she would be committed. She would write him a letter, and if she changed her mind, no harm done.

Her heart hammered in her chest as she sat down at the writing desk and got out paper, ink, and a pen.

I’m really going to do this, she thought with disbelief. She dipped her pen into the ink and began to write.

Dear Mr. Daughtry,--

She stopped writing. It felt like a betrayal to Jonathon, writing to another man like this.

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