Big Man's Bride (A Small Town Romance) by Penny Wylder

Author:Penny Wylder [Wylder, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Penny Wylder Books
Published: 2020-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

7

Ally

I look out into the fading light through the window of the guest bedroom. The room is a little dirty, but I can clean it. It’s fine. It’s bare but it will do. Right now there aren’t even sheets on the bed. I’ll ask Caleb if he has any extras. I’m frankly amazed that there’s even a bed in here at all. I’m going to think of this as a kind of extended stay hotel. I can always run back to my apartment to get a few things if I need them. That’s not against the rules.

I smile to myself. This used to my room when I was a kid—where I stayed when I would visit my grandfather. I can even see the outline in the faded paint of the old pictures Grandpa had hanging on these walls. The wood floor still creaked in just the same way when I stepped in the room the first time today. It seems only fitting that I would stay in here again. There’s a satisfying sense of things coming full circle. Hopefully once this month is over and the deed is signed back over to me, I’ll think that it was worth it. I’ll finally be home.

The wedding band on my finger is a little bit loose. Now that it’s there, it’s a little hard not to face the reality of what I just did. I sold myself to Caleb. I know I didn’t, not really, and I did it for the right reasons, but still. There’s a feeling that’s nagging at me that I just made a terrible mistake.

As if my thoughts had summoned him, there’s a creak on the flooring, and I turn to find the man himself leaning against the door frame, hands in his pockets, the picture of ease. His suit jacket is gone, shirt sleeves rolled up to his elbows. His hair is less than perfect now, like he’s run his hands through it a couple of times, and I’m jealous of how good he looks even though he’s disheveled. When I’m in that state, I resemble a drowned rat more than anything else.

“Do you have any extra sheets?”

He nods. “I was waiting to have all the furniture delivered until I was sure that the interior didn’t need an extensive overhaul, but the repairs it needs are minor, so it’ll be delivered this week.”

“Oh.”

Silence hangs in the air between us. It feels tense and slightly awkward in a way that it hasn’t so far. But it’s different. We are actually married, and there’s no way to avoid that.

“Thank you for the dress,” I say. I’d gone to pick it out this morning, and I loved the way it made me feel. It’s the most expensive item of clothing that I’ve ever owned, and it didn’t even quite cost the amount of money that he’d given me yesterday. “And for the paperwork. Now that it’s done, I won’t bother you for the next month. I still have to work,

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