Bayou Bride by Bobbi Smith

Author:Bobbi Smith [Smith, Bobbi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-09-06T14:16:00+00:00

"Peri? Aren't you coming with us?"

Peri had been watching the new accountant from beneath lowered lashes. At her uncle's call she dashed after him, wanting to find out all she could about Nick's love.

Nick had no time to protest further as Charles handed both women into the carriage and climbed in with them.

"I'll send the carriage back for you and the others."

Swept away by Charles's charming insistence, Jordan could only glance back helplessly at Nick. Her expression was a mixture of doubt and pleasure until she saw him smiling widely as he watched them go.

"I'll see you at the house in a few minutes."

Charles slapped the reins to the back of the horse and they moved off.

Jordan's first sight of the Riverwood plantation house nearly took her breath away. Majestic in its whitepillared Grecian design, it sat on a low hill, glistening brilliantly in the afternoon sun amidst the perfectly manicured lawns and bright flowering gardens. Jordan knew she was gaping, but she didn't care. She'd had no idea Nick's home would look like this. When he'd said the house was big, she'd never dreamed it was a mansion, especially not one this beautiful.

"It's lovely," Jordan whispered.

"Thank you," Charles swelled with pride, pleased that she was impressed.

"Do you live here, too?" she asked Peri.

"Me? Oh, no. My family's from New Orleans. I just came upriver to visit with Uncle Charles for a few weeks."

"I can understand why you'd want to. It's ...so peaceful."

"Uncle Charles and Nicky have..."

"Nicky?" Jordan repeated, and she couldn't help but chuckle at the nickname.

"I'm sorry." Peri laughed, too. "I should stop calling him that now that we're both grown, but he's been Nicky to me ever since I was little and used to follow him around the plantation. Anyway, Uncle Charles and Nicky have worked for years to make Riverwood the showplace it is."

"It's been a labor of love, Peri," Charles corrected.

"Riverwood is heavenly, Mr. Kane. I never imagined it would be this wonderful."

"Please, call me Charles."

Jordan favored him with a bright smile, liking him more with every passing minute and regretting his illhealth. "Charles."

"But tell us about you, Jordan," he asked as he drew the carriage to a stop before the house. "How did all this come about?"

She had just begun to give them the version she and Nick had concocted when a tall black man came out of the house.

"Mr. Nick ...I'm..." Weddington stopped abruptly when he realized that Nick wasn't there. "Mr. Charles, I'm sorry. I thought it was Mr. Nick coming home."

"He's here, all right, Weddington, but I left him down at the landing. I wanted to bring his surprise home myself."

"Surprise, sir?"

"Jordan meet Weddington. He's the mainstay of my household. Weddington, this is Miss Jordan Douglas, soon to be Mrs. Dominic Kane."

Weddington's eyes widened as he glanced from the young woman to Charles. "Mr. Nick's finally gone and done it? Mr. Nick's found himself a bride?"

"He most certainly has, and she was well worth the wait, don't you agree?" he asked as he climbed out and helped her and Peri down.

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